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1 " The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do? "
― Jed Rubenfeld , The Interpretation of Murder
2 " In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which " only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on? "
