Quotes by : François Mauriac

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying....

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling,....

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse....

No man can bear a child's cross.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away,....

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize....

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told....

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could....

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted. ....