Quote by Henry Rollins
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. – André Maurois

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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We need not destroy the past. It is gone. – John Cage

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