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"I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present."

"The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, i..."

"It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the cloth..."

"You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present."

"Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebul..."

"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me..."

"Release the story and the truth will be revealed. Release the past and the present will reveal itself. Embrace the future and walk through your fears. Dig out the weeds and the flowers will blossom. S..."

"My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present."

"It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present."

"The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of..."