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(1895) Author: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sofja Kovalevskaja Translator: Louise von Cossel
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remain uninfluenced by this wonderfully bright
intelligence and warm feeling; it fertilised every
germ of life that came within her sphere.

Her highest aim was fellowship, spiritual
fellowship, and though she may have been too
fantastic in her superstitious dreams and
forebodings, certainly she had something in her of
the prophetic vision. When she looked straight
into your face, turning her short-sighted sparkling
eyes on your own, you felt that she pierced your
soul through and through. Many a time one
glance of hers would be sufficient to penetrate
the mask with which some people succeed in
hiding their real face from unsuspicious eyes,
and many a time she detected secret motives
which were hidden to all others, even to the
person in question. Her poetic gift, too, was
prophetic; a word, an insignificant event, might
reveal a whole life’s history to her.

It was her great object to find the logical
connection between all manifestations of life, as
for instance, between the laws of thought and
the outward phenomena. She could not satisfy
herself with seeing in part, and understanding in
part; it was her delight to dream of a more
perfect form of life, where, according to the
apostle, ‘we shall see no longer in part, but face

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