Through Jane's conversation with the characters of this story - Jesus, Paul, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Hermann Hesse, Hemingway, Saint-Exup ry - in her dream, the author leads readers into the world of philosophy, reason, faith, and light.NIETZSCHE: "Be faithful to the life you live in now and feel the beauty of the Earth "Hermann Hesse: "We can make our journey here not vain, but meaningful."DOSTOEVSKY: "My existence is not one thing, but it's transformed into a thousand beings."SAINT-EXUPÉRY: "I was so sad that my loving heart changed to hate. So I told myself: 'What I thought was beautiful at first is always beautiful, even if it later turns old and ugly.'"PAUL: "The 'forbidden fruit' in Genesis is a symbolic expression of our conscience and the existence of the duality in our heart, good and evil."HEMINGWAY: "I wanted to find out where the original power of flower blossoming came from that no one can imitate."JESUS: "The Kingdom of God comes to us in happiness when we take care of ourselves, patiently understand and love one another faithfully."
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