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You cannot, as someone put it, emigrate from your own time.
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The quote means that no one can completely escape the period they live in. A person may reject the customs, ideas, or problems of their age, but their life is still shaped by that time. “Emigrate” is used as a comparison: leaving a country is possible, but leaving your own historical moment is not.
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