Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
About Francois Mauriac
Francois Charles Mauriacwas a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Academie francaise (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion d’honneur in 1958.
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Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
French writer (1885-1970)
I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
French writer (1885-1970)
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.
French writer (1885-1970)
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
French writer (1885-1970)
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
French writer (1885-1970)
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
French writer (1885-1970)