“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960
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The ellipsis is in the original, and it is where the sentence turns. She answers the question of purpose with one verb: live.
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