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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY, Untimely Thoughts
- Beyond here lies nothin'
- But the mountains of the past
BOB DYLAN, "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?
THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
JEANETTE WINTERSON, Written on the Body
- Ye come and go incessant; we remain
- Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past;
- Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,
- Of faith so nobly realized as this.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, The Cathedral
When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
Learn from the past--don't wear it like a yoke around your neck.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic
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