We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.

Frans Kellendonk

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What's done, is done

William Shakespeare

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Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

Dan Brown

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Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Haruki Murakami

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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Martin Amis

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Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

P.D. James

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Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

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Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Julio Cortázar

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The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of hope in the face of the gray purgatory of adult loves.

Julio Cortázar

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