"There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them
~ Haruki Murakami ~












You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them
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