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The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.