"It's a pleasure to share one's memories.  Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious.  At least the past is safe ---though we didn't know it at the time.  We know it now.  Because it's in the past, because we have survived." 

~ Susan Sontag
b. 28 Jan 1933 - New York City, NY

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"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but is all still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes."

~ Thomas Carlyle
(1795 - 1881)