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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found

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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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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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

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