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

- Francois Mauriac

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

- Francois Mauriac

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.

- Francois Mauriac

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

- Francois Mauriac

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

- Francois Mauriac

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

- Francois Mauriac