Quotes by Léon Bloy

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Writer, poet and essayist · French · 1846–1917

French writer, poet and essayist (1846–1917)

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“There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.”

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

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

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

“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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“I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.”
— Leon Bloy
prayer

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

“There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.”
— Léon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor: A Novel
catholic-author catholicism christianity fiction

“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
— Léon Bloy
suffering

“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
— Léon Bloy
failure goal saint triumph

“Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man’s hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes ...”
— Léon Bloy, Pilgrim of the Absolute
ethics god morality mystery

“Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man’s hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes ...”
— Léon Bloy
conversion ethics gods morality