Memory Quotes

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy — Alexandre Dumas
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in… — Tim O'Brien
Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries.… — Anne Michaels
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back… — Thomas Wolfe
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… — China Mieville
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with -… — Boris Pasternak
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. — Marguerite Duras
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us,… — Rebecca Walker
A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream... i want to line the pieces up... yours and… — Shiro Amano
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not… — Susan B. Anthony
a dream is only a memory of the future — Steve Erickson
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship… — Isabel Allende
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another… — Dorianne Laux
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out… — Sarah Dessen
There either is or is not, thatâ€™s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The… — Charles Dickens
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… — Milan Kundera

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