To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return th…

Christopher Hitchens
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To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' ✨ Christopher Hitchens (2012). Mortality, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd
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