“‘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.””
Quotes by François Mauriac
“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.””
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.””
“What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.””
Thérèse Desqueyroux
“We are, all of us, molded and re-molded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain nonetheless their work”
The Desert of Love
“I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.””
François MauriacFrançois Mauriac was a prominent French novelist, playwright, and essayist, known for his profound exploration of human psychology and moral dilemmas. Born in Bordeaux, Mauriac's early life was steepe...