2,914 Quotes About Memory
- Author Richard Holmes
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There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.
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- Author Tana French
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The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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When your heart knows the truth, it never forgets.
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- Author Rowan Coleman
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looking at my reflection, in the window opposite, hollow and translucent, I see a woman disappearing. It would help if I looked like that in real life – if the more the disease advanced, the more ‘see-through’ I became until, eventually, I would be just a wisp of a ghost. How much more convenient it would be, how much easier for everyone, including me, if my body just melted away along with my mind. Then we’d all know where we were, literally and metaphysically.
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- Author Julian Barnes
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...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.
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- Author Daniel L. Schacter
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Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).
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- Author Haruki Murakami
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Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, “Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
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- Author Sadamu Yamashita
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In my restless dreams,I see that town.Silent Hill.
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- Author Paul Park
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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
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