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Three passions,simple but overwhelming strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.There passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course,over the deep ocean of anugish,reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love,first,because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that i would often have scarified all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.I have sought it,next ,because it relieves loneliness----that terrible loneliess in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless obyss.I have sought it,finally,because in the union ofthe prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.This is what I sought,and though it might seem to good for human life,this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to understand the hearts of men.I have wished to know why the stars shine.And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.A little of this ,but not much.I have achieved.Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,led upward toward the heavens.But always pity brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my burden to their sons,and the whole whold of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the evil,but i cannot,and i too suffer.
This has been my life.I have found it worth living,and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me