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From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila" class="extiw" title="en:Teresa of Ávila">Saint Teresa</a>'s description of her religious ecstasy: "I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it."</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:F%C3%A9licien_Rops" class="extiw" title="w:en:Félicien Rops"><span title="Belgian artist (1833-1898)">Félicien Rops</span></a>
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