“The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.”

—  Olaf Stapledon , book Star Maker

Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter I: The Earth; 2. Earth Among the Stars (p. 13)

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British novelist and philosopher 1886–1950

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