![The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/penelope-lively-quotes-120315-the-past-is-our-ultimate-privacy.png)
The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.
– Penelope Lively
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