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To the pioneers of the adventure She had indeed indicated that the right selection of the future participants could only happen through the force of example – the quality and sincerity of their own aspiration, consecration and commitment. But our nature foils its own deeper designs and thus those who later on felt themselves to be the bearers of this veritable aspiration deemed it necessary to judge, to condemn and to caution brothers against brothers. This conduct, on the part of almost all who adhered to S. and his combat, soon provoked a more general reticence as regards all form of ideology and a celebration of more pragmatic and ordinary endeavors.

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All exclusivism hollows out furrows that become groves where nothing blooms any more. Rancor, regrets, resentments, deceptions, closed doors and the taste of ashes = one must have the courage to stand alone before the truth to be renewed and find the way again.

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With the Government intervention, the community was liberated from the Society’s reductive grip but found itself, by the same token, weighed down by an alarming gravity.

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