"What I fear is not being forgotten after……" — 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 books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories."
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Francois Mauriac
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31 Quotes by Francois Mauriac
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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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