While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may … - Claude Levi-Strauss

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Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Claude Levi-Strauss

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

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