When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
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