58 Quotes by Francois Mauriac

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

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

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

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

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

We know well only what we are deprived of.

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

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.