And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …

Graham Swift
About This Quote

This is a quote from the book, The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.  In this quote, he is speaking about the memory of a unique experience that was once beautiful and lovely. However, now that memory has been tainted.  It is no longer beautiful and the past is now the past.

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