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Past and Present

1972 film by Manoel de Oliveira

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Past and Present (Portuguese: O Passado e o Presente) is a 1972 Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The film is considered part of the director's Tetralogy of Frustrated Love, with Benilde, Doomed Love and Francisca.

Cast

Maria de Saisset as Vanda, a widow

Manuela de Freitas as Noémia

Bárbara Vieira as Angélica

Alberto Inácio as Ricardo

Pedro Pinheiro as Firmino

António Machado as Maurício

Duarte de Almeida as Honório

José Martinho as Fernando

Alberto Branco as Doctor

Guilhermina Pereira as Housemaid

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Notable quotes

“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”
— The life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an examination of his works (1825).
“I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.”
— Letter to Goethe, (1828).
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
— Article on Biography.
“Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.”
— Bk. III, ch. 8.
“O reader, to what shifts is poor Society reduced, struggling to give still some account of herself, in epochs when Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!”
— Ch. 6, Laissez-Faire.
“It is really, as Coleridge I think said of something else, like reading a story by flashes of lightning!”
— Francis Jeffrey, letter to Carlyle (30 May 1837) on The French Revolution. This is often repeated as stating that Carlyle's style is “like reading history by flashes of lightning”.

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