"My soul lives in a place where the passions have passed by and where I have known them all."
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"If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer."
"Through honeycombs of stone would now be wandering the passions in their clay. There would be tears and there would be strange laughter. Fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings. And dream…"
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