Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of al… - Léon Bloy

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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 strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Léon Bloy

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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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A perfectly true thought, expressed in very sound terms, can satisfy the reason without giving any impression of the Beautiful; but in that case certainly there is something false in its statement. It is essential that Truth be in Glory. Splendor of style is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

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

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

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