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RicePaddy  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 15th Irregular Occasional Give a Quote from Your Recent Reading

    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"

- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell





user-inactivated  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood. - ?

RicePaddy  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think I've heard that one, where does it come from?

user-inactivated  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It makes its way around the internet, but it's a re-brand of this one:

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Source