Artifice Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

— Washington Irving

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the…

— Samuel Beckett

“I didn't understand at all that the memories accumulated during years of happiness could weigh enough to balance so large a loss, or that…

— Eric Kraft

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens…

— Walter Benjamin

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

— Richard Flanagan

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest…

— Richard Russo

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Remembering the past that hurts is like carrying the baggage which just makes heart heavy.”

— Tonmoy Acharjee