
“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 215
El traidor no es menester
siendo la traición pasada.
Segismundo, Act III, l. 1109.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
El traidor no es menester siendo la traición pasada.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 215
Internationale Situationist (no. 1, Paris, June 1958).
“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”
Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 575.
1945 Testimony before the U.S. Congress hearings on the United Nations Charter
“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s
“the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 7