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“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“things Past have a being in the Memory onely, but things To Come have no being at all; the Future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of actions Past, to the actions that are Present”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“For you and I are past our dancing days.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“No reflection was to be allowed now: not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet—so deadly sad—that to read one line of it...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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