“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

Miya Ando, Kumo, 2016

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

At present I have the feeling I don’t live anywhere. I am suffering complete agony, I, not only don’t live here, I am never even present here.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Boris Pasternak June, 21, 1926