“… why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”
Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling
Source: Fear and Trembling
“I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.”
— Tanith Lee, book Quest for the White Witch
Book Two, Part II “White Mountain”, Chapter 3 (p. 283)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
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