“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.”
Henning Mankell book The Troubled Man
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“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".
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