Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back li…

Guy de Maupassant
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. ✨ Guy de Maupassant (2015). Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James, p.954, e-artnow
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