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I think a lot lately about a line John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden, an imperfect but deeply passionate novel he wrote for his sons; it's one of my favorite books, though I don't re-read it now as often as I used to. Still, parts stay with me.

He wrote,

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.