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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have…
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We all have appointments with the past.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing…
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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
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The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?…
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed…
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually…
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.
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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
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I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.
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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after…
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It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it.…
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Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner…
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Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But…
— W G Sebald
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When you try your best but you don't succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you…
— Unkown
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Something you cannot even get back in your life is. When your friend borrow your pen..
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