That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitation: all his feelings and all his being were shaken to their depths, and he came to know that terrible torment which, by way of a striking exception, sometimes occurs in nature, when a weak talent strains to show itself on too grand a scale and fails; that torment which gives birth to great things in a youth, but, in passing beyond the border of dream, turns into a fruitless yearning; that dreadful torment which makes a man capable of terrible evildoing.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansThe Religion Of The Blue CircleAll my talents are already given to our worldbecause God gave me all the talents of the world.November 16, 2016
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Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansThe Religion Of The Blue CircleAll my talents are already given to our worldbecause God gave me all the talents of the world.November 16, 2016
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