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Author - François Mauriac
Quotes by : François Mauriac
lesbianism
It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.
laziness
The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying....
boredom
What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling,....
virtue
The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse....
literacy
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
suffering
No man can bear a child's cross.
purity
The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize....
who
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....
loneliness
What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could....
writing
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted. ....
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