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I would crawl into The Little Prince because I'd love to have a feeling of such wondrous naive wisdom. I can't think of another protagonist whose innocence lends to such an enlightened state of mind as his.
When did you truly realize that the planet on which we live was - cosmologically speaking - a fairly insignificant rock in the universe and how did it make you feel?
for me, it was when I was stargazing one summer night in our backyard when I was around 14. I remember looking up at the sky and seeing all the stars and it was like an epiphany. It both frightened and fascinated me at the same moment. Frightened that my egocentric world was fairly insignificant and fascinated that the universe was so expansive.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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