It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it
If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold. - Francois Mauriac
If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.
- Francois Mauriac
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. - Francois Mauriac
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. - Francois Mauriac
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that ver… - Francois Mauriac
We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that ver…
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I… - Francois Mauriac
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I…
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. - 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.
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. - Francois Mauriac
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you … - Francois Mauriac
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you …
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. - Francois Mauriac
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
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