“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
François Mauriac“No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
Francois Mauriac“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.”
François Mauriac“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
François Mauriac“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted. ”
François Mauriac“The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.”
Françoise Mauriac“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.”
François Mauriac, Thérèse“To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.”
Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn't it occur to you that the sort of life people like us lead is remarkably like death?”
François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux