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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/love-does-not-make-you-weak-because-it-is-the-source-of-all-strength/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

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## More by Léon Bloy

> [There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/there-are-places-in-the-heart-that-do-not-yet-exist-suffering-has-to/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/suffering-passes-but-the-fact-of-having-suffered-never-passes/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/i-pray-like-a-robber-asking-alms-at-the-door-of-a-farmhouse-to-which/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/man-has-places-in-his-heart-which-do-not-yet-exist-and-into-them/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [“Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/chance-is-the-modern-word-for-holy-spirit/)

[Léon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/love-does-not-make-you-weak-because-it-is-the-source-of-all-strength/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/any-christian-who-is-not-a-hero-is-a-pig/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [“I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/i-shall-become-as-complete-a-stranger-as-the-unknown-drama-sleeping/)

[Léon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/there-is-only-one-tragedy-in-the-end-not-to-have-been-a-saint/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/the-worst-evil-is-not-to-commit-crimes-but-to-fail-to-do-the-good-one/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/the-only-real-sadness-the-only-real-failure-the-only-great-tragedy-in-2/)

[Leon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

> [“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-on-bloy/one-had-in-any-case-a-bag-full-of-fruits-that-resemble-stars-picked/)

[Léon Bloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-on-bloy/)

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