“Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003)
“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien
said mildly, “that we can even have a future”
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