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Quote by Wendell Berry
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to es

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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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. – Wendell Berry

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

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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