People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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A man is responsible for his ignorance.

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a man possessed with peace is always smiling.

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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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Beauty is a rebellion against time.

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

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Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

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