[Seraphita by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookSeraphita CHAPTER I 22/30
I know not if the time has come to speak thus to you, but I would, ah, I would communicate to you the flame of my hopes! Perhaps we may one day be together in the world where Love never dies." "Why not here and now ?" she said, murmuring. "Nothing is stable here," he said, disdainfully.
"The passing joys of earthly love are gleams which reveal to certain souls the coming of joys more durable; just as the discovery of a single law of nature leads certain privileged beings to a conception of the system of the universe. Our fleeting happiness here below is the forerunning proof of another and a perfect happiness, just as the earth, a fragment of the world, attests the universe.
We cannot measure the vast orbit of the Divine thought of which we are but an atom as small as God is great; but we can feel its vastness, we can kneel, adore, and wait.
Men ever mislead themselves in science by not perceiving that all things on their globe are related and co-ordinated to the general evolution, to a constant movement and production which bring with them, necessarily, both advancement and an End.
Man himself is not a finished creation; if he were, God would not Be." "How is it that in thy short life thou hast found the time to learn so many things ?" said the young girl. "I remember," he replied. "Thou art nobler than all else I see." "We are the noblest of God's greatest works.
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