"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."

Past, Freedom, Living, Detachment

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"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."

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