“Utopia lies at the horizon.When I draw nearer by two steps,it retreats two steps.If I proceed ten steps forward, itswiftly slips ten steps ahead.No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.What, then, is the purpose of utopia?It is to cause us to advance.”

Eduardo Galeano

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