François Mauriac said this quote

“ The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet. ”

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If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

~ François Mauriac

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

~ François Mauriac

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.

~ François Mauriac

No man can bear a child's cross.

~ François Mauriac