الحياة والعالم، أو ما نسمّيه ذلك الذي نكونه ونشعر به، أمرٌ مدهش. غشاوةُ الألفة تحجب عنّا عجائب وجودنا. نُدهش لبعض تحوّلاته العابرة، لكنه في ذاته المعجزةُ العظمى.

“Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.”Percy Bysshe Shelley — Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1845)