se rapetisser

A chaque fois que je rencontre un nouvel ADN, mon monde se rapetisse.
Well... every time I make another DNA match in here, my world gets a little smaller.
Vous contemplez cet accomplissement sensationnel, votre statut de diplômé, et pourtant, tout cela se rapetisse.
Somehow, you look at all this tremendous achievement, your postgraduate status, and somehow, it begins to shrink.
C’est une loi de notre esprit qu’il se conforme aux objets auxquels il s’arrête habituellement. S’il ne s’occupe que de choses frivoles et vulgaires, il se ravale et se rapetisse.
It is a law of the mind that it gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is trained to dwell.
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