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"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
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"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."

"Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself."

"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."

"But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
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"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."

"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."

"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."

"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
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