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Quotations: Memory, the past

A man’s memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
— George Santayana, American philosopher (1863-1952)

Men live by forgetting. Women live on memories.
— T.S. Eliot, Anglo-American poet (1888-1965)

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
— George Santayana, American philosopher (1863-1952)

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
— L. P. Hartley, British novelist (1895-1972)

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