If you hold onto the past you'll only make the present go fast.

Fuck the past. This was the present.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations /past and present /are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.