"What is that you say?
What do you mean ?" "We can never understand one another, I fear," said I."The love of life must necessarily be the strongest passion of man.

We are so made.
We give up everything for life.

A long life is everywhere considered as the highest blessing; and there is no one who is willing to die, no matter what his suffering may be.

Riches also are desired by all, for poverty is the direst curse that can embitter life; and as to requited love, surely that is the sweetest, purest, and most divine joy that the human heart may know." At this the Kohen burst forth in a strain of high excitement: "Oh, sacred cavern gloom! Oh, divine darkness! Oh, impenetrable abysses of night! What, oh, what is this! Oh, Atam-or, are you mad?
Alas! it must be so.

Joy has turned your brain; you are quite demented.