The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. ✨ Bertrand Ru…

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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2002). The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970, p.160, Psychology Press
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