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To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike
Dream, Reality, Men
"Why Updike delved into suicide killers' psyches", www.today.com. June 28, 2006.
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.