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Francois Mauriac Quotes

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Sin is the writer’s element  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It’s exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you’re kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn’t read into the things you say.  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) We know well only what we are deprived of  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It’s exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you’re kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn’t read into the things you say  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) A man’s passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) I believe that only poetry counts... A great novelist is first of all a great poet  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man’s ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) 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  (Francois Mauriac Quotes) Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell  (Francois Mauriac Quotes)