"Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies……" — Francois Mauriac
"Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures."
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31 Quotes by Francois Mauriac
Francois Mauriac has 31 quotes on this site.
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
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The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do…
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This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core…
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Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as…
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of…
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The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our…
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That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
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We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass,…
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
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Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
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I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The…
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by…
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open…
— George H. W. Bush
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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