In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, rememberingthat only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, andthat all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.
Olaf Stapledon
The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (riotously darting in all directions according to the caprice of their own wild natures, yet in every movement confirming the law), the whole tangled horror that had tormented me finally presented itself to me in its truth and beautiful shape. And I knew that the first, blind stage of my childhood had ended.
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, wasbut an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lastingonly for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, thehost of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there acasualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, andhere and there a fresh disaster.
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