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"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
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"Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

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