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I once thought that when you understood something, it was with you forever. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all of our lives to remember the most basic things.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker recalls believing that understanding something meant keeping it permanently, then concludes that most truths slip away. Even the most basic insights must be relearned through effort across a whole life. The tone is reflective and humbled, treating remembering as ongoing labour rather than a single achievement.
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