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History is a fabric of memories and fear and forgetting, of longing and nostalgia, of invention and re-creation.
the moon was racing ahead as if it had lingered too long in their company. He saw it sink behind the trees and thought, this is how we grow old: by letting the moon and the sun overtake us.
The mind was a curse: its ability to go back in time to regret and to hop into the future to hope and worry was not a blessing.