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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 · Fear

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Georges Bernanos

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.

Faith

Georges Bernanos

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Hope

Georges Bernanos

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Hope

Georges Bernanos

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Death