Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Survive
  • Illness
  • Mortality