"Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
~ Chuck Palahniuk ~












The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
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"There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
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"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.