Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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