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Portrait of Léon Bloy

Léon Bloy

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Léon Bloy was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and satirist, known additionally for his eventual defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.

Quick Facts About Léon Bloy

Notable works: Antología de la literatura fantástica

About Léon Bloy

Léon Bloy was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and satirist, known additionally for his eventual defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes 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.

Death

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

Facts

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I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Alms

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Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have…

Existence

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“Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.”

Holy spirit

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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…

Doe

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Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Christian

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“I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination”

Literature-quotes

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

Catholic

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“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”

Crime

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The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

Failure

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“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...”

Astronomy

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