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265 Our Memories quotes by 217 unique authors
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Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,…
— Joshua Foer
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
— Jesse Jackson
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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to…
— Marcel Proust
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving…
— Laura Esquivel
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
— William J. Clinton
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In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated,…
— Steven Brust
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was…
— Graham Greene
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose…
— Stephen King
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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they…
— Neil Gaiman
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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…
— Milan Kundera
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Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our…
— Julio Cortazar
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The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than…
— Neil Gaiman
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Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me…
— Joan Lowery Nixon
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What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
— Nicholas Sparks
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,…
— John Pilger
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