Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.
I am not nostalgic for the past.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
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