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.