A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not … - Francois Mauriac

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I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

Francois Mauriac

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

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

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The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

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Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

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