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“Everything called me back to her; I had to come back to her. This return determined my fate, and for a long time yet before possessing her, I only lived in and for her. Ah! if I had sufficed for her heart as she sufficed for mine, what peaceful and delightful days we might have spent together! We did pass such days but how short and fleeting they were, and what a destiny followed them!”

"These hours of solitude and meditation are the only ones in the day during which I am fully myself and for myself, without diversion, without obstacle, and during which I can truly claim to be what nature willed."

"Everything is finished for me on earth. People can no longer do good or evil to me here. I have nothing more to hope for or to fear in this world; and here I am, tranquil at the bottom of the abyss, a poor unfortunate mortal, but unperturbed, like God Himself."