“Woe to him who has not begged!
There is nothing more exalted than to beg.
God begs. The Angels beg. Kings, Prophets, and Saints beg.”

—  Léon Bloy

Source: Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947), p. 1

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French writer, poet and essayist 1846–1917

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