"The past is a strange thing. It is with the person all the time, maybe not an hour goes by without him remembering something that happened ten or twenty years ago, mostly he has no sense of reality yet, just a set of learned facts, like a bunch of data in history books. Then a person accidentally sees, hears or smells something, especially smells, which makes him start going back, and the past is no longer recalled in him, but he himself is in the past.
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George OrwellAll Translations
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The past is a strange thing. It is with the person all the time, maybe not an hour goes by without him remembering something that happened ten or twenty years ago, mostly he has no sense of reality yet, just a set of learned facts, like a bunch of data in history books. Then a person accidentally sees, hears or smells something, especially smells, which makes him start going back, and the past is no longer recalled in him, but he himself is in the past.
""Különös dolog a múlt. Egyfolytában az emberrel van, talán nem is telik el óra, hogy eszébe ne jutna valami, ami tíz-húsz éve történt, többnyire még sincs semmi valóságérzete, pusztán megtanult tények halmaza, mint egy csomó adat a történelemkönyvekben. Aztán az ember véletlenül meglát, meghall vagy megszagol valamit, főleg megszagol, amitől elindul visszafelé, és már nem a múlt idéződik fel benne, hanem ő maga van a múltban."