Francois Mauriac
Francois Mauriac
François Charles Mauriacwas a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 October 1885
CountryFrance
cross destiny friendship leaving mark path
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
love miracle invisible
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
love friendship best-friend
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
reading enough ifs
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
soul doubt agitation
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
inspirational book reading
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
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We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.
children discipline doe
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
flames soul next
If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.
love-is two weakness
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
song lying men
The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
real taken temples
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.
world cemetery burial
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
names law flora
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.