"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

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