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

— 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.

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My anger is the effervescence of my pity.

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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.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

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