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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – John Berger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. – John Adams

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Dont count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! – Edwin C. Bliss

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – Henri Frederic Amiel

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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. – Mark Twain

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What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? – Harrison Christian

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