It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without …

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. ✨ The Idiot. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868-1869.
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