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Line 443: * '''That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost <br> The desires for all that was most desirable, <br> Before you are contented with what you can desire; <br> Before you know what is left to be desired; <br> And you go on wishing that you could desire <br> What desire has left behind.''' But you cannot understand. <br> How could ''you'' understand what it is to feel old? * You will change your mind, but ~~your~~you are not free. <br>''' Your moment of freedom was yesterday. <br> You made a decision. You set in motion <br> Forces in your life and in the lives of others <br> Which cannot be reversed.''' * '''We die to each other daily. <br> What we know of other people <br> Is only our memory of the moments <br> During which we knew them. And they have changed since then.''' <br> To pretend that they and we are the same <br> Is a useful and convenient social convention <br> Which must sometimes broken. We must also remember <br> That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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