Memory Quotes

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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking… — Jim Cymbala
Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within — Jorge Luis Borges
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them… — Andrew Sean Greer
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. — Gustave Flaubert
People without memory are putty. — Naomi Klein
Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele… — James Thurber
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,… — Lawrence Durrell
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness… — Jeanette Winterson
The color white is the absence of memory. — Stephen King
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only… — Richard Matheson
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. — James Joyce
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated… — James Joyce
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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