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... soul is a secret garden into which the elect may penetrate only after overcoming a number of perilous obstacles . But this kind of obscurity is not only pretentious ; it is short - sighted . For time plays it an odd trick . If the sense ...
... soul is a secret garden into which the elect may penetrate only after overcoming a number of perilous obstacles . But this kind of obscurity is not only pretentious ; it is short - sighted . For time plays it an odd trick . If the sense ...
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... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth ...
... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth ...
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... soul of man , struggling to be free , has except for brief moments looked upon the self - surrender that it claims as a fall from grace . The happiness it brings may be the greatest of which man is capable , but it is seldom unalloyed ...
... soul of man , struggling to be free , has except for brief moments looked upon the self - surrender that it claims as a fall from grace . The happiness it brings may be the greatest of which man is capable , but it is seldom unalloyed ...
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