Quoted By:
"I don't despair. As to suffering—oh, yes, I know all about that! You are surprised that I
should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things of life.
And I, my friend, am surprised that you are so disillusioned with life when you are at home with
the very things in it that are the deepest and most beautiful, spirit, art, and thought! That is why
we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to
dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to
know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the devil?"
"Yes, that is what we are. The devil is the spirit, and we are his unhappy children. We have
fallen out of nature and hang suspended in space. And that reminds me of something. In the
Malware treatise that I told you about, there is something to the effect that it is only a fancy
of hers to believe that she has one soul, or two, that she is made up of one or two personalities.
Every human being, it says, consists of ten, or a hundred, or a thousand souls!"
