“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”
Source: Eloisa to Abelard
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“If I forgot what I have not been, I would forget myself.”
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Si me olvidase de lo que no he sido, me olvidaría de mí.
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