Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchiesand even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart; I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence; For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure. and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
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