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To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds. Those sensations form a someone. The headaches begin then.
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The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
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Memory is a tough place. You were there.
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The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really just say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?
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If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this?/Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.
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History's authority over us is not broken by maintaining a silence about its continued effects.
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There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.
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If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw--your memory, vessel of your feelings.
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And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
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