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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.” quote by Leon Bloy — Download Open image

“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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There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

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

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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.

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“Chance is the modern word for 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 the illusory…

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Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

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

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

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

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

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