„Nothing can be added to the rest, to the past. We always begin afresh.One nail drives out another. But four nails make a cross.“

— Cesare Pavese

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„How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?“
— George Orwell
„Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new.“
— Paulo Coelho