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Q: What is the cause of the world?
A: Love.
Q: Why do men revolt?
A: To find beauty, either in life or in death.
Q: What is for each of us inevitable?
A: Happiness.
Q: And what is the greatest marvel?
A: Each day, death strikes, and we live as though we were immortal. This is the greatest marvel.
The Mahabhrata
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My wife is the single greatest gift that the universe has bestowed upon me. Greater than eyesight, greater than intellect, greater than strength or longing or knowledge.
I cannot believe my good fortune.
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Not that the universe dropped her in my lap, exactly.
I have never fought for a thing harder.
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There were many times I thought, without exaggeration, that it would be the end of me to win her.
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And now, each day, I taste the fruit of my sweet victory. If there be a greater boon than spending each minute of my life with her, I cannot imagine it, nor would I trade what I have with her for it, though it be some golden wish-granting machine.
I have what I have always wanted.
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You think me a fool. You think that I overstate my case.
You could not be more wrong.
If I sin, it is only by not giving her her due.
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I used to believe that there was a magical world, just beyond this one.
Now I know that this is the magical realm after all.
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I have pledged myself to love.
I have no regrets.
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Namaste.
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