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But greater than all these delights would be the possession of this wondrous library for my own use and pleasure. What more could my bibliophile's soul ask for? Here were marvels without end, treasures beyond knowing. You have seen the worst of me in these confessions. Here, then, let me throw into the opposite side of the balance, what I truly believe is the best of me: my devotion to the mental life, to those divine faculties of intellect and imagination which, when exercised to the utmost, can make gods of us all.
I long for sleep, and for soft English rain. But they do not come.
The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.
Truly divine faculties of intellect and imagination can make gods of us all
For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.
I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.
But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear?
