"If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other."

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Source : Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Penn Warren

#Past Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Burden Quotes

“Love Poem Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.”
“If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.”
“Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.”
“A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.”
“Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived.”
“The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.”
“I knew Elmo should represent love. Kissing and hugging.”
“If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.”

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