“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
The Door http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_door.html (1939)
“The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.”
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 201
Context: What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.
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