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Don't strive for love, be it.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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Love

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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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