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- The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.…
- My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
- What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had…
- We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is…
- This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,…
- Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself…
- We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
- My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit…
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