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Georges Bernanos (February 20, 1888 July 5, 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to a certain defeatism that led, in his view, to France's defeat in 1940. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!"

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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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"Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it."

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"And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!"

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

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

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"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us."

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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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