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“ It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,and still they came in watery flocks,because it was spring and the birds had to come,No doubt that soldier's had to be marching,and that the drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling ”

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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

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After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

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