Jacques Maritain on Léon Bloy
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“Instead of being a whited sepulchre like the Pharisees of all times, he was a charred blackened cathedral.”
“His violence was the obverse of a charity lashed by incomparable storms, which had reached the end of its patience.”
“"My secret," he would say to me, "consists in loving with my whole soul, to the point of giving my life for them, the souls called to read me some day."”