It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
“As long as they grow in the wild, principles of life and meaningful action do quite well, but when they are plucked and brought into our dreary world of imperfect results, they begin to wilt. Happily, our noses are so accustomed to the stink of our enemies’ putrefying ideas that when our own give over wilting and commence to decay, we can use them nonetheless.”
William T. Vollmann | An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World