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In The Past Quotes (page 41)

The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. Octave Mirbeau
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. Peter Benchley
The whole effort for the past one hundred years has been to remove the moral responsibility from the individual and make him blame his own human wickedness on his society, but he helps to make his society, you see, and he will not take his responsibility for his part in it. Katherine Anne Porter
Ernest Dimnet quote: "The history of the past interests us only in so far as it..."
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. Ernest Dimnet
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status. David F. Houston
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life. David Coverdale
James Thurber quote: "The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an..."
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. James Thurber
Susan Sontag quote: "In America, the photographer is not simply the person who..."
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. John Joly
Agnes Repplier quote: "The diseases of the present have little in common with the..."
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Agnes Repplier
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. David Antin
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time. Joseph Conrad
Joan Didion quote: "The future always looks good in the golden land, because no..."
The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. Joan Didion
Haruki Murakami quote: "The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past..."
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. Haruki Murakami
The jackal with one eye that looks back and one that regards the path you consider taking. In his jaws are pieces of the past he delivers to you, and when all of that time is fully discovered it will prove to have been already known. Michael Ondaatje

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