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Albert Schweitzer1875–1965

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Albert Schweitzer on life and death

Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, Chapter 26

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