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 world with joy, you infuse our thoughts with light. Life becomes more intense at your side, and the soul stretches out toward infinity.

. Which is life. To understand life, to understand all of it, to love it wholly, and then to live it—to live it all our lives!

. No, not to live it. For life is sad and bitter, it is doing evil and suffering wrong—but to dream, to dream as we do now…

. To live—to dream! Both—what does it matter? To love. To love is all. It is dreaming and it is living!

Curtain