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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
    You forget some things, dont you?
    Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: life, memory
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: child, criticism, memory, verbal-abuse, words
    538 likes

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    Michael Ondaatje
    “We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table
    tags: longing, loss, love, memory
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: future, life, past
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    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    ― John Banville, The Sea
    tags: memories, past
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    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
    1089 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “What's past is prologue.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: past
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: future, human-nature, past
    665 likes

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    Mark Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: memories, past
    708 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: past, rich, wilde
    555 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
    tags: age, aging, fall, nostalgia, past
    379 likes

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    Egon Schiele
    “Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
    ― Egon Schiele
    tags: bodies, body, burn, egon-schiele, light, lit
    102 likes

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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
    tags: canterbury-tales, fallibility, flaws, gold, imperfection, inspirational, iron, rust
    128 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “But what's worth more than gold?"

    "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Making Money
    tags: gold, value
    59 likes

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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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    Alan Bennett
    “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
    tags: books, history, reading
    3945 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
    tags: history
    1897 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: history
    1591 likes

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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    1776 likes

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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
    tags: criticism, history
    1406 likes

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    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: history, truth
    1177 likes

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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception
    1132 likes

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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
    1175 likes

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  • #25
    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
    1094 likes

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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
    1010 likes

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    David Mitchell
    “Fantasy. Lunacy.
    All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: fantasy, history, revolution
    697 likes

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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    984 likes

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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    615 likes

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  • #30
    Thomas Jefferson
    “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: government, history, scope-of-government
    563 likes



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