"The confined space I occupy is so minute when compared with the rest of the universe, where I am not and have no business to be; and the fraction of time I shall live is so infinitesimal when contrasted with eternity, in which I have never been and never shall be ... And yet here, in this atom of myself, in this mathematical point, blood circulates, the brain is active, aspiring to something too ..."

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