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In philosophy, eternal return (or eternal recurrence) is the concept stating that time repeats itself in an infinite loop, and that exactly the same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way, over and over again, for eternity.
Science, Classical antiquity & Friedrich Nietzsche
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