Appearances are nothing…. And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
Georges Bernanos
- Life
- 1888-1948
- Occupations
- writer, novelist, essayist
- Notable works
- Joy, Mouchette, The Diary of a Country Priest
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First of all, be what you are.
Georges Bernanos
Hell is not to love anymore.
Georges Bernanos
I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
Georges Bernanos
Only the present counts.
Georges Bernanos
There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
Georges Bernanos
There’s no hatred that can ever be satisfied either in this world or the next, and the hatred that one has for oneself is probably the one for which there is no forgiveness.
Georges Bernanos
They are always talking about the fire of hell, but no one has ever seen it, my friends. For hell is cold.
Georges Bernanos