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Hercule Poirot's Christmas Quotes

I believe the present matters – not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms – a false perspective.

Source:(HarperCollins, ed. 1998), Part 1. December 22nd, Chapter IV, Page 28
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  • Book: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  • Writer: Agatha Christie
  • Genre: Mystery, Fiction, Crime
  • Published: 1938
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