Frases de Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
Fecha de nacimiento: 20. Febrero 1888
Fecha de muerte: 5. Julio 1948
Georges Bernanos fue un novelista, ensayista y dramaturgo francés. En su primera novela, Bajo el sol de Satanás , ya están patentes sus preocupaciones religiosas. Bernanos ahonda en la psicología del hombre donde tiene lugar el enfrentamiento entre el bien y el mal, la fe y la desesperación. Publicó, entre otros títulos, La alegría, Los grandes cementerios bajo la luna y Diario de un cura rural .
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Frases Georges Bernanos
„Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.“
— Georges Bernanos, libro The Diary of a Country Priest
The Diary of a Country Priest
„Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.“
— Georges Bernanos, libro Les grands cimetières sous la lune
Fuente: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.35
„You know, sometimes I imagine what any decent agnostic of average intelligence might say, if by some impossible chance one of those intolerable praters were to let him stand awhile in the pulpit, in his stead: 'Ladies and gentlemen,… I don't share all your beliefs, but I probably know more about the history of the church than you do, because I happen to have read it, and not many parishioners can say that. For though you're not interested in unbelievers, unbelievers are extremely interested in you.. Yes, we were drawn to you. But now we've decided that you're not very interesting after all, and it's rather disappointing….. Because you do not live your faith, your faith has ceased to be a living thing.“
— Georges Bernanos, libro Les grands cimetières sous la lune
Fuente: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.196-207
„The population of Majorca has always been noted for its absolute indifference to politics. In the days of the Carlistes and the Cristinos, George Sand tells us how they welcomed with equal unconcern the refugees of either side. According to the head of the Phalange, you could not have found a hundred Communists in the whole island. Where could the Party have got them from? It is a country of small market-gardening, of olives, oranges and almonds, without industry, without factories. I declare on oath that during the months preceding the civil war there was no attempt of any kind made against persons or belongings. 'There was killing in Spain,' you say. 'A hundred and thirty-five political assassinations between March and July 1936.“
— Georges Bernanos, libro Les grands cimetières sous la lune
But in Majorca there were no crimes to avenge, so it could only have been a preventative action, the systematic extermination of suspects.
Fuente: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.86 [Carlistes and Cristinos - followers of Don Carlos - reactionary, and Maria Cristina - liberal - in the Spanish War of Succession in the 1830s].
„I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called :What's the use?“
— Georges Bernanos, libro Les grands cimetières sous la lune
Fuente: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.17
„Everybody in Palma knew that my son was a lieutenant in the Phalange, and I was often seen at mass. For months I had been friendly with insurgent leaders who were feared by all the suspects. And yet people I hardly knew spoke freely to me, when the slightest indiscretion on my part would have cost their liberty, or their lives. I'll tell you why it was. It was because it is still known in the world that a Frenchman doesn't let himself become a policeman's pawn - that's why. Because a Frenchman is a free man.“
— Georges Bernanos, libro Les grands cimetières sous la lune
Fuente: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.109
„We are at that one of life's hours (it strikes for every man) when truth imposes itself, by itself, with irresistible obviousness, when each of us has only to stretch forth his arms to reach at a single bound the surface of shadows, even the sunlight of God. Then is human prudence but a snare and a delusion. Sanctity!' cried out the old priest in a deep voice; 'by saying this word in your presence and for you alone, I know the hurt I inflict upon you! You are not unaware of what sanctity is: a vocation, a calling. Up to the place where God awaits you you will have to climb—climb, or be lost. Expect no human help.“
— Georges Bernanos, libro Under the Sun of Satan
Fuente: Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan), 1926, pp.101-102, Fr. Menou-Segrais to the young Fr. Donissan
