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“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Years Made Different Seems Past Interest Existence Events Reflection Flow Pursuit Made It Logical Surroundings Sequence Incarnation Retrospect Dividing

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.”

Looks Country Whole Would Be Past Humanity Powerful Pure Flow Tolerance Generosity Vain Streams Broads European Countries

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.”

Body Past Flow Rivers Exciting Cells Memorable Fiber

Author:John Muir

“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.”

Has Beens Past Ocean Flow India Symbols Memorable

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.”

“There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.”

Writing Wells Mean Past Left Sides Realizing Flow Bleak Output

Author:Gore Vidal

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.”

Ifs Made Running Past Life Is Doubt Judgment Flow Entrepreneur Series Data Insufficient

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses