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"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."

Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan Novelist

Change, Being, Man, Memory

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"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."

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