“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
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