I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
But one must do something about the past. It doesn__ just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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But one must do something about the past. It doesn__ just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
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