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The world can be lived in two ways: the realm of reality, where an act is done for its own sake, and the realm of metaphor, where an act is done for some other end. Human suffering arises because the mind, through imagination, understands one thing in terms of another, and we are unwittingly caught in a game whose only purpose is the performance of the act itself.
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