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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not the future. The future always has and always will belong to - the poet.
The Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud
All the time you spend trying to get back what hass been took from you there is more going out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
No Country for Old Men
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it�s made out of. Nothin else.
No Country for Old Men
In life, it's not the future that counts, it's the past.
Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.
My Life as a Man
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
Ignorance
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
Ignorance
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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