„To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.“

— James Baldwin

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„A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.“
— Peter Handke
„Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it“
— T.S. Eliot
„A movie about the past is not the same as the past.“
— Margaret Atwood