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1 " In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was less intelligent than I had hoped, and I felt frustrated by an inarticulate notion that something was wrong if old material was processed as if the immediate past and the uncertain future had no bearing on it. "
― Ruth Klüger , Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
2 " When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. "
― Mohsin Hamid , Moth Smoke
3 " When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain "
4 " For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and record "
