5,121 Quotes About Memories




  • Author William Makepeace Thackery
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    Though my hair has grown grey now, and my sight dim, and my heart cold with years, and ennui, and disappointment, and treachery of friends, and yet I have but to lean back in my arm-chair and think, and those sweet figures comes rising up before me out of the past, with their smiles, and their kindnesses, and their bright tender eyes!

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  • Author Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
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    No me acuerdo en qué tiempo, pero en uno pasado, era el amor de mi vida, el viejo de mi vejez, el papá de los hijos que no tengo. Era el agua de mi propio aliento y la memoria que tiene mi piel -entre el cuello y el pecho- lo guardó tan cerca que puede sentir sus dedos recorriéndola.

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  • Author Daniel Mendelsohn
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    And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was interviewing, people who were rich in memories but poor in keepsakes, whereas I was so rich in the keepsakes but had no memories to go with them.

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