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Topic·Past and present✕clear

Sonnet · Poem

Things bygone are the only things that last: The Present is mere grass, quick-mown away; The Past is stone, and stands for ever fast.

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

1894

★ 1.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.

Old Paul Edgecomb

The Green Mile · 1999

★ 1.9

Historical literature

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1848

★ 1.9

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

1907

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.

Carl Jung

1952

★ 3.5

Poem

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

John Clare

1845

★ 3.5

Novel

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between · 1953

★ 3.5

Personal journal

With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1839

★ 3.8

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.9

Novel

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun · 1951

★ 7.0

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