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Life Purpose

"If an old dead man at the edge of the grave could open his lips once more, all would say: - I have lived foolishly! For all have lived on this earth as if it were the place of eternity, and they have felt themselves at the beginning of infinite time, toiling, sweating, gathering, arranging themselves so that they might live well beyond the beginning. And suddenly, you don't know how: there he is, lying by the grave. So he lived, but he did not live. And he hadn't thought of that before. If we could look back from the cemetery gates, many of us could say: our life's journey to this point has been nothing but restlessness for rest."
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"If an old dead man at the edge of the grave could open his lips once more, all would say: - I have lived foolishly! For all have lived on this earth as if it were the place of eternity, and they have felt themselves at the beginning of infinite time, toiling, sweating, gathering, arranging themselves so that they might live well beyond the beginning. And suddenly, you don't know how: there he is, lying by the grave. So he lived, but he did not live. And he hadn't thought of that before. If we could look back from the cemetery gates, many of us could say: our life's journey to this point has been nothing but restlessness for rest."

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