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“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.”

Book Moments Past Universe Mystery Reader That Moment Suspects

Book:How Reading Changed My Life

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.”

Inspirational Today Past Mystery Minutes Cherish Today Is A Gift

Author:Elvis Stojko

“In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.”

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Book:Your Brain Is God

Source: Your Brain Is God

“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”

World Made Past Found Effort Rich Mystery Skills Technique Within You Our Past Everlasting Your Past

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.”

Knows Way Past Strong Hours Forget Secret Creative Mystery Labor Forgetfulness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.”

Past Moving Mystery Target Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Edna Buchanan

“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.”

“I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.”

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Author:Ashwin Sanghi