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"The question: 'What is the purpose of life?' smuggles in the wrong answer. The question should be: 'What is the purpose of my life?' There is no such thing as 'THE purpose of life', because life is an end in itself. Life is the purpose of life. And nature has given us a very good way of knowing whether we are spending our lives property or not---namely, whether we are happy or not."