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“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”
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“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
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“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
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“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
South Austin Book Club
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Martha’s 2025 Year in Books
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