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Memory Quotes by Milan Kundera
- There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
- 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.
- [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…
More Memory Quotes
- You've left a memory no one can steal, but you also left a heartache that no one can heal. — Nishan Panwar
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and… — William Shakespeare
- I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm… — Paulo Coelho
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
- If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross