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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."
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