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The abbey burned for three days and three nights.

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On the third day, when the corpses had been buried,

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the monks abandoned the still-smoking abbey as a place accursed.

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this was the only love of my life and i could not then or ever after call that love by name

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master

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Master!

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Master!

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Why are you following me?

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Because I've never met someone like you.

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That's not a good reason to follow anyone.

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Poking about in the rubble, I collected scraps of parchment,

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and I filled two traveling sacks and loaded them on a mule that was running away.

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I was carrying with me a library made up of fragments of stories,

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unfinished sentences phantoms of books was the greatest library in all of Christendom now the

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Antichrist is truly at hand because no learning will hinder him anymore they have seen his face

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you have no reason to reproach yourself you did your best human best which is very little there

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is all my wisdom. I behave stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order when I should have known

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there is no order in the universe. The order that our mind imagines is like a net or like

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a ladder built to attain something. But afterward, you must throw the ladder away, because even

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if it was useful, it was meaningless. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to

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To make people laugh at the truth.

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To make truth laugh.

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I will return to Melk.

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And I will take my vows there.

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And then I shall travel the world in search of books

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and spread their words.

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The beauty, the color of the perfume of a rose,

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when it wilts, only a word remains, its name.