Memory, therefore, simply resurrection one’s private past, immersion — Paul Auster, Invention Solitude

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Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history – which one both participates in and is a witness to, is a part of and apart from. Everything, therefore, is present in his mind at once, as if each element were reflecting the light of all the others, and at the same time emitting its own unique and unquenchable radiance.

Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

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