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Memories Quotes by Milan Kundera
- There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
- This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past,…
- Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events;…
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
- Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into…
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes…
- Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To…
- The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
- I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)
- [W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
- Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no…
- In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it…
- To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and…
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- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. — Charles Baudelaire
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop… — Martha Beck
- Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind but I just smiled and said I used… — Wiz Khalifa