“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.
“I know, but it is no longer I.”
Supposedly spoken by Augustine to his former concubine when she greeted him in the street, and when he ignored her said "Augustine, it is I!" Actually the quote (Sed ego non sum ego) is from De Poenitentia, Book II https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/02m/0339-0397,_Ambrosius,_De_Poenitentia_Libri_Duo,_MLT.pdf, Chapter 10 by Ambrose. Ambrose relates it as a fable, not concerning Augustine, as explained here https://truthchallenge.one/blog/2014/11/17/did-st-augustine-say-this-to-a-prostitute/. <br class="br">Misattributed
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