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  • Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Spring Quotes , Past Quotes
  • He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Confused Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Past Quotes
  • The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
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    Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Past Quotes , Gold Quotes
  • The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes
  • Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.
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    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Past Quotes , Ebb And Flow Quotes