The need for lived experience
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Sentia necessidade de evitar qualquer conversação que me desviasse o pensamento do fim a que ia, e era reconciliar-me com Deus, depois do que se passou no capítulo LXVII.
I felt the need to avoid any conversation that would divert my thought from the end I was going to, and it was to reconcile myself with God, after what happened in chapter 67.
The narrator reflects that street cries and seminary pamphlets are not enough; one must have known and suffered the cases, people, and sensations in time, otherwise everything is silent and colorless.
The narrator expresses a strong desire to avoid distractions in order to focus on reconciling with God, referencing a prior event in chapter 67.
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