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The tiniest flower is a thought, — a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition.

— Honoré de Balzac Séraphîta (1835)

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Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.

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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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