“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”

Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

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English writer 1959

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