François Mauriac Quotes

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you ...

No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérè...

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realiz...

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned h...

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling...

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terr...

No man can bear a child's cross.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance a...

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she coul...

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be inter...