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It is not a matter of knowing something, but of how it penetrates our hearts, and it is able to penetrate our hearts in such a way that we keep the fruit of it and that it also leads us beyond the loss of this tool.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. 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