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In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
Approximate author period: c. 1548 AD · renaissance
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- Teresa of Ávila
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- Approximate author period: c. 1548 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Teresa of Ávila, based on documented lifetime 1515 to 1582. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174880 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174880 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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