Since what we see in the sky, and what we find in the depths of our hearts are both equally removed from our actions, with the one shining far above our undertakings, and the other existing far beneath our expressions, a kind of relationship is formed between the thought we give to the most distant things and our most intimate introspections. They seem to be extremes of our expectation which echo one another and resemble each other in hoping for some decisive event in the heavens or in the heart.
To this galaxy of stars which is stupendous to our eyes, the depths of our being opposes a dismayed feeling of being itself, of being unique,-and, moreover of being alone. I am all, and incomplete. I am all, and a part.
The darkness which surrounds us completely bares our soul.
~ Paul Valery
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