for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emoti…

John Steinbeck
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for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. ✨ John Steinbeck (2002). East of Eden, p.113, Penguin
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