There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal ch…

John Steinbeck
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There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.39, Penguin
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