Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. (Walter Benjamin)

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Walter Benjamin

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