Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build t…

Orson Scott Card
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Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Children of the Mind, p.113, Macmillan
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Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Children of the Mind, p.113, Macmillan

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