If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live? - Nadine Gordimer

The purpose of life is to defend the body against the violence of pain.

Strong emotion - faith? - has different ways of being manifested among the different disciples within which people order their behaviour.

(talking about herself while she was in university) My approach to living as a white supremacist, perforce, among blacks, was, I see now, the humanist approach, the individualistic approach. I felt that all I needed, in my own behavior, was to ignore and defy the color bar. In other words, my own attitude toward blacks seemed to be sufficient action. I didn’t see that it was pretty meaningless until much later.