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> [I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/i-write-whenever-it-suits-me-during-a-creative-period-i-write-every/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

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## More by Francois Mauriac

> [A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/a-good-critic-is-the-sorcerer-who-makes-some-hidden-spring-gush-forth/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [“The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/the-really-pure-in-heart-know-nothing-of-what-goes-on-around-them/)

[François Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [“I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/i-love-germany-so-much-that-i-am-glad-there-are-two-of-them/)

[François Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/the-eucharist-engages-us-unreservedly-it-is-a-pact-of-love-an/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/a-cemetery-saddens-us-because-it-is-the-only-place-of-the-world-in/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/that-is-the-mystery-of-grace-it-never-comes-too-late/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/men-resemble-great-deserted-palaces-the-owner-occupies-only-a-few/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/to-love-someone-is-to-see-a-miracle-invisible-to-others/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/did-you-ever-have-a-conversation-with-someone-who-misunderstood/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [“We are, all of us, molded and re-molded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain nonetheless their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/we-are-all-of-us-molded-and-re-molded-by-those-who-have-loved-us-and/)

[François Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/i-believe-that-only-poetry-counts-a-great-novelist-is-first-of-all-a/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/if-the-flame-inside-you-goes-out-the-souls-that-are-next-to-you-will/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/what-i-fear-is-not-being-forgotten-after-my-death-but-rather-not/)

[Francois Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [“What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/what-a-fool-she-was-ever-to-have-imagined-that-there-might-be-some/)

[François Mauriac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-mauriac/)

> [It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-mauriac/it-seems-that-after-nineteen-centuries-of-extraordinary-glorification/)

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