I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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