"If we tried To sink the past..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
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“When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come.”
“You were the dead; theirs was the future.”
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”