The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. (Terry Eagleton)

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

Terry Eagleton

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