“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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“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.” – Gabriel García Márquez
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“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” – Franklin Pierce Adams
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“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” – Tennessee Williams
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“History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” – Hugh Trevor-Roper
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“A country without a memory is a country of madmen.” – George Santayana
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“The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.” – William Faulkner
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