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Great, strong, spiritual love — which is always at the same time a genuine, unsentimental love of man — cannot be without wrath. … Anger can no more be separated from love than flame and heat can from fire. Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit.

— Constantin Brunner Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)

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From the midst of the flat plain of human reason, there arises the terrible, fire-spewing mountain of genius.

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