The past is a funeral gone by.

Edmund Gosse
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  1. When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. - Siri Hustvedt

  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. - Zadie Smith

  4. The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. - Clare Francis

  5. 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... - A.E. Housman

More Quotes By Edmund Gosse
  1. Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.

  2. I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding...

  3. The past is a funeral gone by.

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