“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”

“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...”

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

“To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.”

“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.”

“At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.”