Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, s…

Bertrand Russell
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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1957). Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, p.115, Simon and Schuster
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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1957). Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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