Best Quotes by Georges Bernanos (Top 10)
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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Hope is a risk that must be run.
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Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
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