The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

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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 Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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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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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

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

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