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There is a scene in the movie Les Miserables that has really touched me to the core, when the young Cosette sang "There is a Castle on a Cloud", because she was enslaved by bad people who treated her very badly, and forced her to do all the work in their hotel, and even to bring water from the woods alone at night. She created this imaginary place in her mind to escape from her reality. We all dream of a castle on a cloud where no one cries. Religions have created heavens for the same reason.

Victor Hugo, the writer of Les Miserables, said: "Those who don't weep don't see". This is very true. Suffering is timeless. It's eternal. It's continuous. The only true rest is death or non-existence. Anything other than that is just an anesthesia, a pain killer, an illusion.