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

— Léon Bloy Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

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

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