Bertrand Russell
\nThree passions have governed my life:
\nThe longings for love, the search for knowledge,
\nAnd unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
\nLove brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
\nIn the union of love I have seen
\nIn a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
\nOf the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
\nWith equal passion I have sought knowledge.
\nI have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
\nI have wished to know why the stars shine.
\nLove and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
\nBut always pity brought me back to earth;
\nCries of pain reverberated in my heart
\nOf children in famine, of victims tortured
\nAnd of old people left helpless.
\nI long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
\nAnd I too suffer.
\nThis has been my life; I found it worth living.
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