Francois Mauriac

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

— Francois Mauriac

“The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds…

— François Mauriac

“I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.”

— François Mauriac

The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All…

— 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

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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…

— François Mauriac

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

— Francois Mauriac

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is…

— Francois Mauriac

“What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink…

— François Mauriac

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…

— Francois Mauriac

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

— Francois Mauriac

“It is not always the events that touch us personally that affect us the most.”

— François Mauriac

We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain…

— Francois Mauriac

“By the time dusk fell, he was back in his room. The last of the daylight lay like fine ashes on the…

— François Mauriac

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

— 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

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know…

— Francois Mauriac

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

— Francois Mauriac

“No man can bear a child's cross.”

— François Mauriac

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

— Francois Mauriac