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To exist means to be real.

Bellerophon riding Pegasus and killing the Chimera, Roman mosaic, the Rolin Museum in Autun, France, 2nd to 3rd century AD.jpg
Bellerophon riding Pegasus and killing the Chimera, Roman mosaic, the Rolin Museum in Autun, France, 2nd to 3rd century AD.jpg
Some things are real, like a rock. Other things are just in our minds. We can think of a dragon. But a dragon is not real. Do you wonder what is real?

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