What I have lived for
Three passions, simple but overwhelming1y strong, have governed
my life :the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable
pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, in a wayward course,
over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so
great that I would often have sacrificed all my 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 co1d 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. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too
good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found.
With equa1 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 1ittle of this, but not much,
I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far they were possible, led upward toward
the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of
cries of pain reverberate in my hear. Children in famine, victims
tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their
pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate
the evi1,but I can’t, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and wou1d
gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
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