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this is an essay i just got in honors 10 english. define this statement.


"This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a funtion of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past and future events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal."


umm what the fuck. help, anyone, please.