Georges Bernanos Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: February 20, 1888 - July 5, 1948
Birthday: February 20
Death: July 5
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.
topic: Daughter, Dark, Past, Pure Soul
