Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
Many try to force the past to change.
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
The present necessarily betrays the past.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
