Our Globe an Atom
So, you see, we in a manner begin to die the very moment we are born: our existence is no more than a point, our duration an instant, and our globe an atom. Scarce do we begin to learn a little, when death intervenes before we can profit by experience.
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Context: The secretary of the Academy of Saturn laments the shortness of life, though his people live fifteen thousand years.
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Source: Chapter II: The Conversation Between Micromegas and the Inhabitant of Saturn