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Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.
Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.
Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
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- Don DeLillo
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- Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1936; activity date not established; Wikidata Q310048, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310048 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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