Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity

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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless ✨ Douglas Adams (2012). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five, p.107, Pan Macmillan
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless ✨ Douglas Adams (2012). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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