I said to God, “What are they doing?”
God said, “Making pitfalls into which their fellows may sink.”
I said to God, “Why do they do it?”
God said, “Because each thinks that when his brother falls he will rise.”

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) South African author, political activist, intellectual, freethinker

“The Sunlight Lay Across My Bed,” Dreams (1890)
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Describing Hell.