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Simone Weil

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Life

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Most of what we experience in life is shaped by our thoughts, beliefs, and stories we tell ourselves, rather than just objective facts. This means that our understanding of reality depends heavily on mental creations and imagined scenarios.

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