In my twenty-seventh year, while riding...
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| Tags | Quote, God, Future, Life, Light, Despair |
| Description | Illustration of a Quote by Adrei Bitov -- "In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light." |
| Artist | Heartlight |
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