“Without a past you can't have a future.”
—
Michael Ende
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The Neverending Story
Source: The Neverending Story
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“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
Aurelius Augustinus
(354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
This is sometimes attributed to Augustine, but the earliest known occurrence is in Persian Rosary (c. 1929) by Ahmad Sohrab (PDF) http://magshare.net/narchive/NArchive/Misc/Raw_Data/A_Persian_Rosary_by_Mirza_Ahmad_Sohrab.pdf, which probably originates as a paraphrase of a statement in Oscar Wilde's 1893 play A Woman of No Importance: "The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
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