“The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight.”

—  Isaac Asimov

Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 3 “Chance and the Wrist Watch” (p. 30)

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