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

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
~ Haruki Murakami ~












With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past ste...
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