In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – Henri Frederic Amiel
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin
Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. – Caleb Bingham
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didnt have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didnt have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. – Theodore Sturgeon