We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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