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VIII
Mistakes made about people's faces are due to an
eclipse of the real image by some hallucination to
which it gives rise.
Know therefore the pleasures of an austere life and
pray, pray without ceasing. Prayer is the fountain
of strength. (Altar of the Will. Moral dynamic. The
Sorcery of the Sacraments. Hygiene of the Soul.)
Music excavates Heaven.
Jean-Jacques said that he always entered a café
with a certain emotional disturbance. For a timid
nature, the ticket-office in a theatre is rather like the
tribunal of Hell.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of gambling.
But what if we are indifferent to gain or loss?
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