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<b>The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography</b>
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<b>What I Have Lived For</b>
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have
governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and
unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds,
have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of
anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
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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...