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The Inferno

CHAPTER VII
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She answered him with profundity, that the contradiction lay not in herself, but in the things she wanted.
"The lover then seized another healing wand and with desperate eagerness, he explained, he shouted, 'Divine happiness has not the same form as human happiness.

Divine happiness is outside of ourselves.' "The woman rose, trembling.
"'That is not true! That is not true!' she exclaimed.

'No, my happiness is not outside of me, seeing it is /my/ happiness.

The universe is God's universe, but I am the god of my own happiness.

What I want,' she added, with perfect simplicity, 'is to be happy, I, just as I am, and with all my suffering.'" Amy started.


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