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1 " Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? "
― Thomas Mann , The Magic Mountain
2 " The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence "
― T.S. Eliot , Four Quartets
3 " Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past. "
― Gordon S. Wood
4 " The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence. "
