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STRAIT IS THE GATE 216

“We do not feel our bonds as long as we follow willingly him who leads; but as soon as we begin to resist and to draw away, then indeed we suffer."


These words affected me so personally that I did not have strength to go on reading, but opening the book in another place I came across an admirable passage which I did not know and which I have just copied out.


The first volume of the Journal came to an end here . No doubt the next had been destroyed, for in the papers which Alissa left behind the Journal did not begin again till three years later still at Fongueusemare - in September - a short time, that is to say, before our last meeting. The last volume begins with the sentences which follow .

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