“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

—  Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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