Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Léon Bloy
Born: July 11, 1846
Died: November 3, 1917 (aged 71)
Bio: Léon Bloy was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and poet.
Known for:
- Disagreeable Tales (1894)
- The Woman Who Was Poor (1897)
- Sweating Blood
- Pilgrim of the absolute
- Mon Journal (1892-1917)