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For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

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Dream, Children, Past
FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jul 03, 2011

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

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Past, Stills

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

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Mean, Past, Our Lives
Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.151, A&C Black

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