Jean-Paul Sartre — "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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Attributed, often cited in collections, precise original source debated. While evocative of his ideas on temporality, its exact wording is more famously associated with William Faulkner. Confidence reduced accordingly.
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