Francois Mauriac Quotes - Page 2

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• Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

  Francois Mauriac

  Law, Names, Flora And Fauna

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• I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

  Francois Mauriac

  Believe, Novelists, Firsts

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• A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

  Francois Mauriac

  Spring, Feet, Criticism

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• I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

  Francois Mauriac

  Two, Germany, Glad

  As quoted in "The Rough Guide to Germany" by Gordon McLachlan, (p. vii), 2004.

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• 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.

  Francois Mauriac

  Ideas, Cowardice, Burden

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• The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

  Francois Mauriac

  Real, Taken, Temples

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• The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.

  Francois Mauriac

  Alliances, Protection, Recess

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• The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

  Francois Mauriac

  Arrogance, Doubt, Despair

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• Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

  Francois Mauriac

  Men, Mind, And Love

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