When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Siri Hustvedt
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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Zadie Smith
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
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Clare Francis
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
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A.E. Housman
More Quotes By Christina Rossetti
For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.
For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
