Georges Bernanos

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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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

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Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

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Hope is a risk that must be run.

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When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one’s

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Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. Georges Bernanos, "Why Freedom?

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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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