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François Charles Mauriac foi um escritor francês.

Foi laureado com o prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1952, em reconhecimento "à profunda impregnação espiritual e artística com que seus romances penetraram o drama da vida humana". Educado em sua cidade natal, na escola "Des Marianistes" e no liceu Grand-Lebrun, de formação católica, Mauriac refletirá em sua obra a influência de Pascal e Francis Jammes, um conflito trágico entre o amor da religião e as tentações. Sobre ele disse Otto Maria Carpeaux: "Mauriac é um mestre: ninguém negará este título ao autor de numerosos romances tão fascinantes como Thérèse Desqueyroux e Le Noeud de Vipères, que desnudam com força incomparável as almas pecadoras ele é assim "o maior representante do romance psicológico da tradição francesa".

Iniciou sua carreira em 1909, com um livro de poemas . Publicou estudos biográficos e críticos, colaborou também em revistas e jornais franceses, tendo mantido por muitos anos seu "Bloc Notes", coluna publicada inicialmente no jornal La Table ronde, depois no Le Figaro, e a partir de 1955 na revista L'Express. François Mauriac entrou para a Academia Francesa de Letras, em 1933, ocupando a cadeira 22.

Entre suas obras de cunho crítico se encontra um famoso ensaio contra a pena de morte, que levou a uma coleta de assinaturas pelo fim da pena de morte na França, após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Albert Camus, entre outros, participaram assinando a petição. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Outubro 1885 – 1. Setembro 1970
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Francois Mauriac Frases famosas

“Escrever é lembrar-se. Mas ler é, também, lembrar-se.”

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Mauriac apud Dad Squarisi, (6 de agosto de 2006 - "Dicas de português - Escrever é...". Correio Braziliense, Caderno C, p. 4.)

“O romancista é, de todos os homens, aquele que mais se parece com Deus: ele é o imitador de Deus.”

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Le romancier est, de tous les hommes, celui qui ressemble le plus à Dieu: il est le singe de Dieu.
Le roman - página 7, François Mauriac - Cahiers de la quinzaine, 1928 - 136 páginas

“A certeza de serem úteis prolonga a vida das mulheres velhas. Muitas morrem da certeza de não mais servirem para nada.”

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“"Diz-me o que lês e eu dir-te-ei quem és" é verdade; mas conhecer-te-ia melhor se me dissesses o que relês.”

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“Um escritor é essencialmente um homem que não se resigna à solidão. Cada um de nós é um deserto.”

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Francois Mauriac frases e citações

“O artista é mentiroso, mas a arte é verdade!”

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“O orgulho dos poetas não passa de defesa; a dúvida atormenta até mesmo os melhores; eles necessitam de nosso testemunho para não se desesperarem.”

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“Um mal escritor pode chegar a ser um bom crítico, pela mesma razão que um péssimo vinho pode chegar a ser um bom vinagre.”

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“Separar a liberdade da justiça significa separar a cultura e o trabalho, o que constitui o pecado social por excelência.”

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“Experimentar tudo, não por prazer, mas para se não preocuparem mais com isso, eis o método utilizado por alguns cristãos que pretendem curar-se da ambição.”

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“Só conhecemos bem aquilo de que somos despojados.”

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Francois Mauriac: Frases em inglês

“I remained standing in the middle of the room, swaying on my feet as though I had received a blow. I thought of my life and saw what it had been. No one could swim against such a current of mud. I had been a man so horrible that he could have no friend. But wasn't that, I asked myself, because I had always been incapable of wearing a disguise? If all men went through life with unmasked faces, as I had done for half a century, one might be surprised to find how little difference there was between them. But, in fact, no one lives with his face uncovered, no one. Most men ape greatness or nobility. Though they do not know it, they conform to certain fixed types, literary or other. This the saints know, and they hate and despise themselves because they see themselves with unclouded eyes. I should not have been so universally condemned had I not been so defenseless, so open, and so naked.”

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Fonte: Viper's Tangle

“Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.”

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Journal, 1932-1939 (Paris: Table ronde, 1947) p. 278; Adrienne Foulke (trans.) Second Thoughts (Plainview, NY: Books for Libraries Press, [1961] 1973) p. 148.
Contexto: Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

“Very little would have been needed for the tears of Judas to be allied in the memory of mankind with those of Peter.”

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Vie de Jésus (Paris: Flammarion, 1936) p. 257; Julie Kernan (trans.) Life of Jesus (New York: David McKay, [1937] 1951) p. 223.
Contexto: Very little would have been needed for the tears of Judas to be allied in the memory of mankind with those of Peter. He might have become a saint, the patron of all of us who constantly betray Christ.

“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.”

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“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.”

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Fonte: Thérèse

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

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“What makes a poet is, surely, the love of these things, a desperate search for the tiny ray of sunshine which used to flicker on the floor of a child’s bedroom.”

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Francois Mauriac livro Questions of Precedence

Ce qui fait le poète, n'est-ce pas l'amour, la recherche désespérée du moindre rayon de soleil d'autrefois jouant sur le parquet d'une chambre d'enfant?
Préséances (1921), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol.1 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 301; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Questions of Precedence (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958) p. 46.

“The myth of Prometheus means that all the sorrows of the world have their seat in the liver. But it needs a brave man to face so humble a truth.”

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Francois Mauriac livro Vipers' Tangle

Le mythe de Prométhée signifie que toute la tristesse du monde a son siège dans le foie. Mais qui oserait reconnaître une vérité si humble?
Le Nœud de vipères (1932), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol. 2 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 166; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Knot of Vipers (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951) p. 151.

“Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.”

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Presque tous les hommes ressemblent à ces grands palais déserts dont le propriétaire n'habite que quelques pièces; et il ne pénètre jamais dans les ailes condamnées.
Journal, 1932-1939 (Paris: Table ronde, 1947) p. 6; Adrienne Foulke (trans.) Second Thoughts (Plainview, NY: Books for Libraries Press, [1961] 1973) p. 142.

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

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J’aime tellement l’Allemagne que je suis heureux qu’il y en ait deux.
As quoted in The Rough Guide to Germany (2004) by Gordon McLachlan, p. vii.

“One can touch a living soul through a curtain of vice and crime no matter how dense and dark: but vulgarity is an insurmountable barrier.”

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Francois Mauriac livro Vipers' Tangle

On atteint aisément une âme vivante à travers les crimes, les vices les plus tristes, mais la vulgarité est infranchissable.
Le Nœud de vipères (1932), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol. 2 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 190; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Knot of Vipers (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1985) p. 193.

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

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“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.”

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“This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.”

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“What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.”

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“It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it.”

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