![Karen Armstrong Quotes: there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations776/there-is-no-ascent-to-the-heights-776023.jpg)
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
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