“Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?”

—  Pat Murphy, book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 183)

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