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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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"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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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
Nothing
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
Innocence
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
Memory
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
Life
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
Life
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
Forgiveness
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
Circumstance
"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."
Emotional
"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."
Past
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
Escape
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