"Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body."

Past, Memory, Time, Burden

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"Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body."

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"In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt."

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