Francois Mauriac Quotes

Francois Mauriac — French Novelist born on October 11, 1885, died on September 01, 1970

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958... (wikipedia)

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

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 me what you reread.

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

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.