There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.”
“I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.”