Tuesday, January 24, 2023

What matters

Everything matters more than we think it does,
and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does.
The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze,
but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over,
the world will wag itself right again.

                                Samuel Butler, Sparks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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