Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack.. The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist.. And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something.. What chaos! What a farce! . Ivan Turgenev
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The poet says that even in such a small part of the universe, there is so much chaos and so much absurdity. The tiny space we occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space. We can’t put our living matter into other parts of the universe without it becoming nothing, or we can’t do this because we exist and move and change and grow and die. And the period of time in which we live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which we haven’t existed and won’t exist. To think that life will last forever is absurd.

Source: Fathers And Sons

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