Quote by Emily Dickinson
The past is not a package one can lay away. - Emily Dickinson

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

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Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness — – Emily Dickinson

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I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson

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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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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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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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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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