No sadder fate

You know why money and fame, power and lust, and all the rest don't have any serious hold over me?

Because of this.

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Because I cannot possibly imagine a life any more sad and useless than one where someone would confuse any and all of those things with real love.

How incredibly sad and foolish.

Hugh Hefner needs to listen to the Magnetic Fields. And to more love songs, in general.

How sad that anyone would confuse love with any of those other options. How sad that anyone would pretend that the fact that everyone takes love for granted somehow means that love really doesn't matter.

How sad that all of us act as if love is weakness.

Instead of, as Hugh Hefner's sad life demonstrates, our greatest strength.