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Georges Bernanos

French writer, publicist
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.More Georges Bernanos quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]
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.More Georges Bernanos quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]
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!More Georges Bernanos quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.More Georges Bernanos quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.More Georges Bernanos quotes [03/12/2018 02:03:32]

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