“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been, seen, done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone, everything whose being-in-the-world affected, was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone, which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.”
-- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
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