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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

and since there is a consciousness which always accompanies thinking, it is this which makes us all to be that which we call ourselves- thereby distinguishing us from other beings that think, and giving us our personal identity. (principium indivduationis)

You deny it? Let us not argue the matter. Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are, have their origins in the ecstasies which might have been.