You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step …

Orson Scott Card
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2013). Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead, p.548, Tor Science Fiction
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