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  1. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
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  2. Wisława Szymborska _ Here

    I'm a poor audience for my memory.She wants me to attend her voice nonstop,but I fidget, fuss,listen and don't,step out, come back, then leave again.She wants all my time and attention.She's got no problem when I sleep.The day's a different matter, which upsets her.She thrusts old letters, snapshots at me eagerly,stirs up events both important and un-,turns my eyes to overlooked views,peoples them with my dead.In her stories I'm always younger.Which is nice, but why always the same story.Every mirror holds different news for me.She gets angry when I shrug my shoulders.And takes revenge by hauling out old errors,weighty, but easily forgotten.Looks into my eyes, checks my reaction.Then comforts me, it could be worse.She wants me to live only for her and with her.Ideally in a dark, locked room,but my plans still feature today's sun,clouds in progress, ongoing roads.At times I get fed up with her.I suggest a separation. From now to eternity.Then she smiles at me with pity,since she knows it would be the end of me too.
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ 1Q84

    At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.
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  4. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    But thing in the past are like plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?
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  5. Haruki Murakami _ Yesterday

    When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ Dance Dance Dance

    Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.
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  7. Haruki Murakami _ Dance Dance Dance

    Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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  8. Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Lowland

    He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and made his life, was not his,
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  9. Tad Williams _ Stone of Farewell

    It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...
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  10. Philip Pullman _ Lyra's Oxford

    Perhaps some particles move backwards in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are. There are many things we haven't yet learned how to read.
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  11. Milan Kundera _ The Joke

    Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.
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  12. Milan Kundera _ The Book of Laughter and

    They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live.
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