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• Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? — Martin Farquhar Tupper
• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel
• If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be… — Ivan Klíma
• Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard
• It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without… — George Will
• The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire. — Wilfred Bion
• For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog
• Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. — Erica Jong

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