The Past Is Our Definition. We May Strive, With Good Reason, To Escape It, Or To Escape What Is Bad In It, But We Will Escape It Only By Adding Something Better To It. - SearchQuotes

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Wendell Berry

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