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CHAPTER XVIII
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We shall not know then where we're going." She persists and makes signs of dissent.
I say no more, tired.

But I do not lower my gaze before the all-powerful surroundings of circumstance.

My eyes are pitiless, and cannot help descrying the false God and the false priests everywhere.
We go down the footpath and return in silence.

But it seems to me that the rule of evil is hidden in easy security among the illusions which they heap up over us.

I am nothing; I am no more than I was before, but I am applying my hunger for the truth.


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