"I hear my father-in-law's response[...] "Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
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Cloud Atlas (novel)
Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell, published in 2004. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy "Book of the Year" award. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012.
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