"Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I donâ€™t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which Iâ€™m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I havenâ€™t existed and wonâ€™t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!"

-- Ivan Turgenev

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