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He adored force and hated weakness. It is the crime of female natures.
— Francois Mauriac
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
— Francois Mauriac
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
— Francois Mauriac
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The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy
— Francois Mauriac
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
— Francois Mauriac
The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
— Francois Mauriac
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
— Francois Mauriac
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
— Francois Mauriac
It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.
— Francois Mauriac
If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.
— Francois Mauriac
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
— Francois Mauriac
I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
— Francois Mauriac
We know well only what we are deprived of.
— Francois Mauriac
I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
— Francois Mauriac
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
— Francois Mauriac
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
— Francois Mauriac
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
— Francois Mauriac
This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.
— Francois Mauriac
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
— Francois Mauriac
Tell me what you read and I will tell you who you are.
— Francois Mauriac
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.
— Francois Mauriac
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
— Francois Mauriac
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
— Francois Mauriac
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.
— Francois Mauriac
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.
— Francois Mauriac
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
— Francois Mauriac
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
— Francois Mauriac
That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
— Francois Mauriac
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
— Francois Mauriac
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.
— Francois Mauriac
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
— Francois Mauriac
No man can bear a child's cross.
— Francois Mauriac