“That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.”

—  Carl Sagan, book Contact

Quoting Emily Dickinson; The Poems of Emily Dickinson http://books.google.gr/books?id=LoH2SXEnnoEC&amp;dq=, 3:1171, no. 1741 <br class="br">Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 22 (p. 393)

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