... I have
sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy
- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for
a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness
- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the
rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it
finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the
prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined....
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Bertrand Russell
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