"Our aversion to that colossal thought will grow less if we remember that the subject of the great dream of life is in a certain sense only one thing, the will-to-live, and that all plurality of phenomena is conditioned by time and space. It is the great dream that is dreamed by that one entity, but in such a way that all its persons dream it together."
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), trans. E. F. J. Payne, 2000, p. 220
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