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Life is full of lessons; learn the lessons in life you meet each moment of time well! So many people meet the same things in life time after time, because they fail to know, understand and take real lessons from the same things they always meet time and time again! Day by day, make a consistent effort to improve yourself. Day by day, take consistent steps in wit to avoid doing the same thing that resulted in the same thing in the same way! Life is full of lessons; don__ forget to learn the lessons life teaches well, or else you shall leave each moment of your life learning the same life lessons!

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Where exactly does it come from, I__ like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can__-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the mere fact that their future is known to us, that we know what happens? (Nothing good.) It__ much the way we treat small children_ pedantic and permissive at the same time. And we always think of the people of the past _ just as we do of children _ as being naïve in everything from their clothes and hairstyles to their thoughts and feelings.

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Oksana Zabuzhko

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

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Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.