But just like a statue can be taken down to the bottom of the lake to dry up and become worthless, so too can the life that we possess.
This is a phrase that a neural network-based text generator hallucinated for me four years ago, and I still remember it to this day. It's such a bizarre phrase, but it reminds me of something I think I've heard before.
"Just like a beatiful statue that can be thrown in a lake and not be seen by anyone anymore, a thing's worth or other qualities are not dependent on it being observed or not." Or something like that. Basically, a piece of art is still a piece of art even if nobody sees it.
I can't quite remember the second part of the quote, and I'm not sure I haven't made it up when I saw that AI-generated piece of text. But an image of a statue being thrown into the water, to never be seen again by human eyes (unless of course archeologists or divers are a thing) is such a powerful thing to me. I don't know why.