My Real Purpose Might Be To Learn To Have No Purposes

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I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.

Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I felt that I was ever outside, missing things. At that time I could not understand at all that my real purpose might be to learn to have no purposes.

— Marion Milner