Francois Mauriac

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

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.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.