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1846–1917 France

Léon Bloy (11 July 1846 – 3 November 1917), was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet.

France
Essayists
Novelists
Poets

Also known as: Leon Bloy

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There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

One sees the world's evil accurately only by exaggerating it.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

My anger is the effervescence of my pity.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

You are always on the right side when you are with those who suffer persecution and injustice.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

The exercise of freedom consists in stripping oneself of one's own will.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

The rich have a horror of Poverty because they have a dim foreboding of the expiatory interchange implied by her presence.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

Of the truths which embarrass him he thinks it better to remain unaware.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

The Bourgeois who has religious feelings sees very clearly the absolute necessity of serving two masters at the same time in order to achieve success in his business, which naturally comes before everything else.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

Unhappy writer, you had dreamt of winning souls and you have won nothing but ears!

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

You had hoped that the beloved and noble images flowing from your heart would serve as a river to carry to God many another heart! But, as you see, people are afraid of getting wet.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

The avaricious man ... proclaims that money is the only good, and he yields it all his soul.

"My secret," he would say to me, "consists in loving with my whole soul, to the point of giving my life for them, the souls called to read me some day."

Woe to him who has not begged!
There is nothing more exalted than to beg.
God begs. The Angels beg. Kings, Prophets, and Saints beg.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

You will be unsaleable in perpetuity, the Unsaleable, in your books as well as in your person, and thus will be definitively realized the separation, naturally desired by you, from the sellers and people for sale.

L'Invendable (1909)

The worst thing is not to commit crimes but, rather, not to accomplish the good that one could have done. It is the sin of omission, which is nothing other than to be unloving, and no one accuses himself of it.

A perfectly true thought, expressed in very sound terms, can satisfy the reason without giving any impression of the Beautiful; but in that case certainly there is something false in its statement. It is essential that Truth be in Glory. Splendor of style is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Léon Bloy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.