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"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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Personal Development

"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
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"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
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"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
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"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
Life

"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."
People

"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."
Wisdom

"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
Attitude

"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
Work

"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."
Hope

"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
Life

"The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions."
Life

"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
Perception

"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
Art
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