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Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

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Miguel
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 23
Composer
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Pimentel
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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.
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