...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it […]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.

Ceux qui ne peuvent se souvenir du passé sont condamnés à le répéter.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.

"I hate to say this to a professor of history, and a very good one, but South Africa is a land cruelly wounded by its constant recollection of things past. At certain points the English did behave poorly; this is never allowed to be forgotten. At every memorial the same time-worn litany of incidents must be recited. Hatreds become enshrined as the most vital components of the national mythos, and no one is ever permitted to forget, or turn his attention to more creative tasks. I remember that day you told us what Santayana had said: "Those who forgot history are condemned to repeat it." Well, those who remember it obsessively are poisoned by it. p1149"