Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
The past is where its supposed to be.
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.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
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.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
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