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[00:17.28]and unbearablepityfor the suffering of mankind.

[00:21.44]Thesepassions, like greatwinds, have blown me hitherand thither,

[00:27.13]in awaywardcourse overadeep ocean ofanguish,

[00:31.41]reaching to the very verge ofdespair.

[00:34.36]Ihave sought love,first, because it brings ecstasy

[00:39.17]—ecstasy so great that Iwould often have sacrificed all the rest of my life

[00:44.97]forafewhoursforthis joy.

[00:47.70]Ihave sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness

[00:52.19]—that terrible loneliness inwhich one shivering consciousness

[00:57.46]looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.

[01:04.12]Ihave sought it,finally, because in the union oflove Ihave seen,

[01:10.02]in amysticminiature,

[01:11.89]the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

[01:17.90]This iswhat Isought, andthough itmight seemtoo goodforhuman life,

[01:23.92]this iswhat—at last—Ihavefound.

[01:28.08]With equalpassion Ihave sought knowledge.

[01:32.12]Ihavewished to understandthe hearts ofmen.

[01:36.06]Ihavewished to knowwhy the stars shine . . .

[01:45.37]Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.