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Everything that can possibly exist exists now. Things now may be expressive of some conceivable or describable past state of affairs, yes:but that's different from saying this this former state actually somehow exists in the form of \"the past\". Even in our memory[...]there is no past:no scenes preserved with all their sights and sounds. Merely fleeting states of mind, myriad points assembled for a moment to make a new picture (but \"picture\" is wrong too, too full, too fixed) of what we think are former states of things: things that once were, or may have been the case.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "the past", "slug": "the-past", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley#Four_Freedoms_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:38" }, { "id": "9d4dbd17-f132-42e5-9609-d0ad98fd6285", "slug": "lately-marges-memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley/little-big/lately-marges-memory", "text": "Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley#Little,_Big:_or,_The_Fairies'_Parliament_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:38" }, { "id": "5e0df0cf-0743-4501-ad05-d2cb5768e768", "slug": "just-as-a-lamp", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley/little-big/just-as-a-lamp", "text": "Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body. And how will we perceive this body? And how operate on it? Not by the means we perceive extension, relation, color, form — the qualities of Space. … No: but by the means we perceive duration and repetition and change: by Memory.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley#Little,_Big:_or,_The_Fairies'_Parliament_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:38" }, { "id": "155c3df9-ec28-4ac4-894a-059facf22752", "slug": "love-is-a-myth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley/little-big/love-is-a-myth", "text": "\"Love is a myth\", Grandfather Trout said. \"Like summer.\" \"What?\" \"In winter,\" Grandfather Trout said, \"summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.\"", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley#Little,_Big:_or,_The_Fairies'_Parliament_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:38" } ] }