"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

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"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

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"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."

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"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"

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"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."

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