I can't be twenty-two again. I can't subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings. (Elias Canetti)

I can't be twenty-two again. I can't subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.

Elias Canetti

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