I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusi…

Yann Martel
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. ✨ Yann Martel (2015). Life of Pi - CANCELED, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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