...If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
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Zum Autor"I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
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"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
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