SCENES BEYOND THE WESTERN BORDER
"Why ever look behind, and cherish the unhappy, profitless past? Why hug delusion and disappointment to the soul?"
"Ask the pale plant," I replied, "why it stretches forth in darkness, toward the ray of light."
--Scenes Beyond the Western Border - May 1853; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army (1857)
BENITO CERENO
"... But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright sun has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves."
"Because they have no memory," he dejectedly replied; "because they are not human."
--Putnam's Monthly Magazine - December 1855; and The Piazza Tales (1856).
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