...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Soren Kierkegaard
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...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Be that self which one truly is. ✨ Soren Kierkegaard (2013). The Wisdom of Kierkegaard, p.218, Simon and Schuster
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