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"This bothersome feeling that we should be unselfish seems to be universally present in societies through time. To commit to another for life is to create the most risky cord that can bind you. To throw yourself into such a relationship or to commit to a cause greater than yourself may bring you great and inescapable pain and suffering. No hole may be deep enough to hide in; no mountain so exalted to which you can flee from the bands of love. You must bear the risk and pay the price of love. What is the source of this troublesome rule of selflessness that we all have sought but fail to meet?"