François Mauriac Quotes
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.
The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.
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.
She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!
