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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
— Georges Bernanos
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Georges Bernanos
writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, librettist
1888 – 1948
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France's defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world. Most of his novels have been translated into English and frequently published in both Great Britain and the United States.
All Quotes by Georges Bernanos
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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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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
— Georges Bernanos
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Hope is a risk that must be run.
— Georges Bernanos