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“It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all.”
“The past looks worse the closer you look at it.”
“When the hunt for new sources of energy had at one point got particularly frantic, one bright young chap suddenly spotted that one place which had never used up all its available energy was - the p...”
“There was no use wondering about the past.”
“Where does the past go when it changes?”
“To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.”
“Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?”
“...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.”
“If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...”
“Since to follow a trail is to remember how it goes, making one's way in the present is itself a recollection of the past...onward movement is itself a return.”
“That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows.”
“Whether pleasant or dismal, the past is always a safe territory, if only because it is already experienced, and the species' capacity to revert, to run backward -especially in its thoughts or dream...”
“The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.”
“The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as dcor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.”
“Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.”
“Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunriseAnd cuts like a fine blade.”
“Its not love that the past needs in order to survive, its an absence of choices.”
“It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.”
“You may have told me your story, but youre still practically a stranger to me. I dont know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.”
“I wish I was what I have beenAnd what I was could beAs when I roved in shadows greenAnd loved my willow treeTo gaze upon the starry skyAnd higher fancies buildAnd make in solitary joyLoves temple i...”
