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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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Personal Development
"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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Personal Development
"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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 only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
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Personal Development
"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
Love
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
God
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
History
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
Writing
"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
Heaven
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."
Cities
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
Biography
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
History
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."
Past
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
Athens
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