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God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
Angelus Silesius
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Angelus Silesius
Age: 52 †
Born: 1624
Born: December 1
Died: 1677
Died: June 9
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Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
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God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
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