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Monday, December 25, 2017
The Goal of Life
The goal of life, for Pascal, is not happiness, peace, or fulfillment, but
aliveness
.
–
Sean Kelly
, an unattributed quotation in his lecture notes
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John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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