"If you would tell me the heart of……" — Francois Mauriac

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me… - Francois Mauriac

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

— Francois Mauriac

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31 Quotes by Francois Mauriac

Francois Mauriac has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do…
This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core…
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as…
The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of…
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our…
That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass,…
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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