Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. The whole soul is never one, save in ecstasy.

Wo ist dein Selbst zu finden? Immer in der tiefsten Bezauberung, die du erlitten hast. ... Die ganze Seele ist nie beisammen, außer in der Entzückung.

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