It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another o…

Kurt Vonnegut
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It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.9, Infobase Publishing
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It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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