“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.”
“Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!”
“Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.”
“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.”
“The past is just something that's over.”
“For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better”