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Baltasar Gracian quote: "The things we remember best are those better forgotten."

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. Jorge Luis Borges
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