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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.
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the storm thunders at my heart I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.
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