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There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.
“In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.”
― The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
― The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
“Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead”
― The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
― The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
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“So many books, so little time.”
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“She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ... She understood me so well! My anxiety that the present 'immediately' turned into the past so that I could love it and dream about it at leisure was just like hers, was identical. It was 'our' vice, this: to go forwards with our heads forever turned back.”
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