Memory Quotes

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And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if… — C.S. Lewis
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. — Virginia Woolf
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… — Jean Cocteau
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been… — Paul Auster
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth… — Steve Martin
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks
Memory is satisfied desire. — Carlos Fuentes
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along… — Denise Levertov
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour… — Simone de Beauvoir
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,… — John Clare
Soon the childâ€™s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are… — Erica Jong
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Haruki Murakami
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence â€“ not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. — Elie Wiesel
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and… — Augusten Burroughs

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