The kind of happiness that could arouse envy in us exists only in the air we have breathed, among people we could have talked to, women who could have given themselves to us. In other words, our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history. The past carries with it a temporal index by which it is referred to redemption.
This quote is not much more than a starting point. I can't claim to understand it better than you. I thought about providing more or less, but that it was given in its form above should be considered somewhat arbitrary.
I wanted to keep a journal, but the possibility that things one writes may be seen, by anyone, is a better guarantee of consistent production.
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