“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

— José Baroja, book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

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Chilean author and editor 1983

Rabih Alameddine book An Unnecessary Woman

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“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

Pebbles of Wisdom

“The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.”

Patrick Dixon book Futurewise

Futurewise (1998)

“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.”

Rex Stout (1886–1975) American writer

Rex Stout, page 246
Invitation to Learning

“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“All is madness. And there is no one who will dare to rise and say that all is not madness, and that the future does not so appear — as fatal and unchangeable as a memory.”

Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist

Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi
Context: All is madness. And there is no one who will dare to rise and say that all is not madness, and that the future does not so appear — as fatal and unchangeable as a memory.
But how many men will there be who will dare, in face of the universal deluge which will be at the end as it was in the beginning, to get up and cry "No!" who will pronounce the terrible and irrefutable issue: —
"No! The interests of the people and the interests of all their present overlords are not the same.

“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories