There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and unde…

Anne Rice
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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. ✨ Anne Rice (1996). Servant of the Bones, Random House Large Print Publishing
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