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“Find actuality in this way, with closed eyes (for in love, you indeed close your eyes to the weakness and the frailty and the imperfection), instead of failing to see actuality with open eyes (indeed, open and staring like those of a sleepwalker).”
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“People have in turn become so differentiated in the differences that are a part of the temporal world, and they perhaps misunderstand it if someone who does not share their difference is willing to stand together with them... he easily becomes the target of attacks from every quarter, he easily becomes like a lost sheep among ravening wolves.”
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“Thus, in the loving and humble person, God's rigor is leniency, but in the hard-hearted person his leniency is rigor.”
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“Then, when the rain falls" and destroys the exalted fragility of that delicate love, "when the winds blow and beat against" the web of hypocrisy: then the love that is genuine shall be known by its fruits.”
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“And in eternity the loving person will not be wounded by any mockery for having been foolish enough to make himself ridiculous by hoping things; for in eternity cries of mockery are not heard, even less than in the grave, because in eternity, only blessed voices are heard. And in eternity no envy shall touch the wreath of honor, which the loving person bears with honor. No, however far envy reaches, it does not reach that far, it does not reach from hell to paradise.”
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