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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
Have you heard of the Mooreffoc effect?
The concept was created (or perhaps identified) by Charles Dickens and it stands out not only as an oddity but as a reminder to take the time to look at and appreciate things from a different angle.
In an unpublished autobiography that was later quoted in John Forster’s The Life of Charles Dickens (1872), Dickens recounted this memory:
