There is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.

Catherynne M. Valente
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If there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. What do you think of when you hear the word “only”? If you are like most people, you think of “only one.” There is only one world. It cannot be any other way. The odds of it being any other way are astronomical. If there was another world, then how would we know about it? And if we were told that there was another world, how would we know that it was not this one? We would have no way of knowing whether or not the world was different than it is now, or if it had ever been different at all.

Source: Deathless

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