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Thomas de Quincey

“All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.”

Thomas de Quincey, Suspira de Profundis, Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater
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