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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."

"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."

"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."

"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."

"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."

"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."

"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment."
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