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 You can  never compete with something in the past, in memory. Like some people  said, we love what we can’t have. In this world, the end becomes the  beginning. It’s very unfair for anyone around him [Tony] in the present,  because they can never compete with his imagination or his memory. We  love what we can’t have, and we can’t have what we love. 

—                                                                                                                   Wong Kar-wai Time, 2004

    You can never compete with something in the past, in memory. Like some people said, we love what we can’t have. In this world, the end becomes the beginning. It’s very unfair for anyone around him [Tony] in the present, because they can never compete with his imagination or his memory. We love what we can’t have, and we can’t have what we love.

    — Wong Kar-wai Time, 2004