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Many Orientals believe it is better not to have been born at all. The world is a delusion, they say, human life a misery, and its final destination--after a circling sequence of useless births and useless deaths--the utter cessation of being.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 208