Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gr…

H. G. Wells
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. ✨ H. G. Wells (2015). The Time Machine, p.71, eKitap Projesi
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