Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.31, Canongate Books
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