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No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
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Reality includes creating every real connection and reference.
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In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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February 15, 1945
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