Human beings are self-aware, reasoning creatures of free will, with eternal souls. We seek for meaning, for brushing the transcendent, for happiness, and for each other. We are defined by nearly limitless capacities for love/selflessness and hatred/egotism.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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