One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve throug…

Albert Einstein
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One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad. ✨ Albert Einstein (2013). Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives, p.21, Princeton University Press
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