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

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

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If this word “music” is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. – John Cage

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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. – John Cage

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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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Past

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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Past

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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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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But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. – Richard Marx

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