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“I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.”

Knows Wells Pain Past Beautiful Death Memories Bears Comfort Remains Wounds Thank God Parting Hope For The Future Past Memories Beautiful Memories

Author:Max Muller

“Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.”

Dream Past Dark Remains Clouds Shade Sole Remnants Images Of Love

Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

“As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.”

I Can Feelings Together Past Used Memories Fiction Five Remains Bounds Vain Not Sure Squares Charming Vague Scrap All That Remains

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.”

Art Problem Past Culture Remains Response Sequence Precedent

Author:Andre Malraux

“The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.”

Long Past Industry Remains Holocaust

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.”

Men Kind Age Past Records Overcoming Miracle Prejudice Remains Instance Despise Signals

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.”

Men Past Order Modern Shadow Remains Thrown Unemployment Modern Society

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.”

World May Stills Humor Past Political Certain Evil Huge Remains Nuclear Empires Uncertain Versus Arsenal Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush