“He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.”

—  Ray Bradbury , book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

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