“People lived and died and did strange, pointless things to themselves. So did societies, be they city-sized states or galactic empires encompassing thousands of solar systems. Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.”

—  Alastair Reynolds, book House of Suns

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 240)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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