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— Juana Inés de la Cruz"I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!"
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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