“What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.”

—  Osamu Tezuka

Source: Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters

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Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928–1989

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