Awareness Quote by J. Valor

“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view…

— Ashim Shanker

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of…

— Joseph Conrad

“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history…

— Paul Auster

“He'd read that once in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in…

— Anonymous

“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about…

— Pearl S. Buck

“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our…

— Michael Crichton

“He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and…

— Jodi Picoult

“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would…

— Andrei Platonov

“He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them…

— C.S. Lewis