“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“- "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions.”
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- "One of the many possible illusions." by Robert Sheckley?
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