We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is o…

Oliver Sacks
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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. ✨ Oliver Sacks (1998). The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, p.110, Simon and Schuster
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