The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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.
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