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Liberado de la aflicción del amor rechazado y de la vanidad ninguneada, y de todos los demás ataques y punzadas que el lecho de pinaza de la vida le había infligido cuando ambicionaba la fama, pero que ya no podían atacar a alguien indiferente a la gloria, abrió los ojos, que había tenido bien abiertos en todo momento pero que hasta entonces solo habían visto pensamientos [...]

"She began to think, was Nature beautiful or cruel; and then she asked herself what this beauty was; whether it was in the things themselves, or only in herself; so she went on to the nature of reality, which led her to truth, which in its turn led to Love, Friendship, Poetry [...]; which meditations, since she could impart no word of them, made her long, as she had never longed before, for pen and ink."

"For Love, to which we may now return, has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them."