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

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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. РAndr̩ Maurois

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

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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