Francois Mauriac
Francois Mauriac
François Charles Mauriacwas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 October 1885
CountryFrance
inspirational book reading
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
reading choices source
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.
reading enough ifs
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.
belongs drop embrace eternal jewish last single word worth
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal is the Eternal, the last word for each one of us belongs to Him. This is what I should have told this Jewish child. But I could only embrace him weeping.
dearly french-novelist hope love
I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
cross destiny friendship leaving mark path
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
book forgotten enough
What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.
ideas cowardice burden
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
spring feet criticism
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
doubt arrogance despair
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
passion men climbing
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
two germany glad
I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
believe firsts novelists
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
wells deprived knows
We know well only what we are deprived of.