#distance

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? ↗

— Regina Spektor

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. ↗

— Stendhal

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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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