Today is the birthday of Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (July 27, 1870 – July 16, 1953), writer and historian, best known simply as Hillaire Belloc. He wrote 153 books of essays, fiction, history, biography, poetry and light verse as well as a vast amount of periodical literature."I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." - Hillaire Belloc
"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly." - Hillaire Belloc
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun." - Hillaire Belloc
"Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring." - Hillaire Belloc
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