Journal
Emanuele Levi
1822–1823
We will compose a little book that will also serve as an amusement when, in ten years’ time, we want to look back into the past and observe what we lived through. All people have a weakness for remembering the past, as if they want to take up the thread of their lives again and return to their first youth. (28 January, 1822) [ . . . ]
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