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A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

A world that won’t forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.
– Tacita Dean

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