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The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come. — David Markson
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to… — Sue Grafton
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the… — Julian Barnes
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment. — Roger Zelazny
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the… — Thomas Merton
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea… — Alexandre Dumas
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always… — Orhan Pamuk
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times. A voice that… — Cassandra Clare
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't… — Jorge Amado
One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history. — Unknown Author
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter L. Berger
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once,… — Augustus Hare
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every… — Thomas Jefferson
The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them,… — John James Audubon
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. — John Strachan
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since… — Asa Gray
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to… — David Cassidy
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say,… — Federico Fellini
Wake up in the morning, clock says half past one. I have no sunglasses as I step into the sun. There's no recollection of the… — Brad Nowell
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, a name in your recollection, thrown down among a million same. — A Perfect Circle
When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with an untroubled spirit to your Heavenly Father, who is always… — Francois Fenelon
If you wish to attain holy recollection, you will do so not by receiving but by denying. — St John Of The Cross
Infatuation, love, memory, recollection, remembrance — Hussein Nishah

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