"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 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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Mason Cooley, American Writer

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Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."

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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

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"It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"How do you know that past exist?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"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."

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"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."

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"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."

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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

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"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."

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"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."

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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."

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

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"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."

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"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."

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