François Mauriac Quotes

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

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.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil.... You, who see evil everywhere....' It was true, and it was not true.

No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

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.