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The furniture,
Taken out and examined under the starlight, pleads
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Yet I shall never return to the past, that attic.
It is the time we have now, and all our wasted time sinks into the sea and is swallowed up without a trace. The past is dust and a ...
That's how it all began. Looking back on it,
I wonder now if it could have been on some day
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us ...
Tiffany's Salesman: Do they still really have prizes in Crackerjack boxes?
Paul: Oh, yes.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requ ...
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in part ...
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be reco ...
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