"We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up."
"The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us."
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Source: Grace King (1973). “Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings”, p.35, LSU Press
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