#retrospective

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. ↗

— Robert Peel

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I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. ↗

— Tracey Emin

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