Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search
for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have
seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that
saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.... Read More

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