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  1. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched.
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  2. Joan Didion _ Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.
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  3. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
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  4. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    Before I can say , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones {that part unfortunate}, plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial.
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