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Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air,
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and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes.
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I become a transparent eyeball.
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I am nothing.
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I see all.
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The currents of the universal being circulate through me.
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I am part or parcel of God.
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The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental.
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To be brothers, to be acquaintances,
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master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.
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In the wilderness I find something more dear and connate than in