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Men Quotes by Francois Mauriac
- Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced...…
- The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
- The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
- A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
- The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
- A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
- Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
- If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
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