"I had been a man (if I was truly a man) such a short time; I could not endure to think that I had become a man so different form the boy I had been. I could remember each moment of my past, every vagrant thought and sight, every dream. How could I destroy that past?"
— Gene Wolfe’s Shadow and Claw, Location 498
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