One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.
The task of understanding the past is neverending.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
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