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\"It would take a book of genius to demonstrate this truth, commonplace though it may be, that one must have suffered in order to be capable of love\. Love is an act of the will, but pain is always a prior revelation to that very act, because man has places in his poor heart that do not yet exist — and into these suffering enters so they may have life\. This is why martyrdom — the complete acceptance of all possible suffering — instantly precipitates the soul into perfect love, without even p...

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