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Leon Bloy was a 19th-century French writer, poet and essayist. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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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
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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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“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 ...”
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