2,914 Quotes About Memory
- Author Victor Del Arbol
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Memory is a strange thing: You forget crucial incidents & remember insignificant details.
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- Author Elizabeth Bowen
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But I should never write what had happened down. One's nature is to forget, and one ought to go by that. Memory is quite unbearable enough, but even so it leaves out quite a lot.
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- Author Elizabeth Bowen
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If one didn't let oneself swallow some few lies, I don't know how one would ever carry the past.
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- Author Julian Barnes
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This last isn't something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
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- Author Luigina Sgarro
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I wonder why the more one thing is unforgettable and the more we find it difficult to separate ourselves from the objects that remind us of it.
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- Author Denton Welch
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I wrote about the night bird cries, the sea sounds and the lonely barking, and I liked what I wrote in flashes; but something was wrong with it. There is always something wrong with writing. So I tore the paper up at last, liking the untouched memory so much better, not wanting it forced into the insincerity of words.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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He was prisoned in thought. Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
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- Author Charles Yu
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Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the moment back as its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.
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- Author Sunetra Gupta
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...and yet even then, within themselves there had been a strange nostalgia, as if they had already begun to live on the memory of their love.
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