XXXVI

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Man is an animal of worship. To worship is to sacrifice one's self and

to prostitute one's self.

Thus all love is prostitution.

The most prostituted being is the being beyond compare, is. God, since

he is the soul supreme for every individual, since he is the common,

inexhaustible reservoir of love.

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