2,914 Quotes About Memory

  • Author Joseph G. Peterson
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    Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.

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  • Author Emily Barr
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    I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.

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  • Author W.G. Sebald
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    Но я не в силах справиться с фантомами повторения, с этими призраками, все чаще мелькающими в моей голове. В любом обществе у меня возникает чувство, словно я где-то когда-то уже слышал те же мнения, высказанные теми же людьми, таким же образом, теми же словами, в тех же выражениях, с теми же жестами.

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  • Author Alexander Pushkin
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    Recalling former years’ romances,Recalling love that time enhances,With tenderness, with not a care,Alive, at liberty once more,We drank, in mute intoxication,The breath of the indulgent night!Just as a sleepy convict mightBe carried from incarcerationInto a greenwood, so were weBorne to our youth by reverie.

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  • Author Tània Balló
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    Las Sinsombrero fueron muchas, cada una de ellas con una hazaña que les pertenece y que forma parte de una Historia que es de todos, a pesar de que durante años le dimos la espalda. Ellas fueron conscientes de que su lucha no iba a ser fácil. Finalmente, las circunstancias políticas y sociales no las acompañaraon en su sueño, pero aun así no se rindieron. Su mayor logro fue conseguir ser ellas mismas en medio de una sociedad que tardó en aceptar que debía mirarlas...

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  • Author Iris Murdoch
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    The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.

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