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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“Don't think of what's past! . . . I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“And by that destiny to perform an actWhereof what's past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

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“The letters I had just inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

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