Unhappy writer, you had dreamt of winning souls and you have won nothing but ears! - Léon Bloy

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Unhappy writer, you had dreamt of winning souls and you have won nothing but ears!

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About Léon Bloy

Léon Bloy (11 July 1846 – 3 November 1917), was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet.

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Alternative Names: Léo Bloy Léon Henri Marie Bloy Le Mendiant ingrat Mendiant ingrat Le Pèlerin de l'absolu Pèlerin de l'absolu
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I see from time to time coins that are tinted with red, having been handled by a butcher or a murderer, and the sight of that money makes me wonder. As I think about the probable origin of that sign of wealth, I tell myself that that is indeed its true color, the color which it should, which it must have, the color that was doubtless taken on by Judas’s pieces of silver, after which he ceased to recognize them and returned them at once to the egregious scoundrels who had given them to him. These, not recognizing the pieces themselves, did not want to return to the treasury of the Temple money so strange in its color. Everyone knows they used it to buy the field of blood, a generic name which I imagine can be applied to all bourgeois holdings ever since the Scourging and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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