"My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce."

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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

— Jonathan Sacks