“Ah! The happy ones of this world who are assured their daily bread—that is, all the things necessary to bodily life—and who, not wishing to know Jesus, have never for one single instant had the idea of suffering for their brothers, of sacrificing themselves for the wretched: ah! indeed! such people are assuredly well qualified to judge me and to reproach me for not having what the world calls dignity!”

— Léon Bloy

Source: Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947), p. 2

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French writer, poet and essayist 1846–1917

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