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The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

Leon Bloy
Real, Sadness, Tragedy

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Leon Bloy
Heart, Men, Order

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.

Leon Bloy
Doe, Weak, Source
Léon Bloy, Jeanne Molbech Bloy (1937). “Letters to His Fiancée”

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Leon Bloy
Inspirational, Suffering, Facts
Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 1984.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Leon Bloy
Christian, Hero, Pigs
"Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith". Book by Jennifer L. Holberg, March 31, 2006.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Leon Bloy
Prayer, Fire, Doors

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Leon Bloy
Death, Grief, Heart

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

Leon Bloy
Faith, Inspiration, Catholic
"Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Peter Kreeft, 2001.

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