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“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out…

— W.G. Sebald

“My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds…

— Mary Shelley

“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption becomes further…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up…

— Albert Camus

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“As laser-bright moments; diamond-hard memories; crisp and clear. A future lived, a future savored, a future of moments so sharp and pointed that they…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weaving a picture on…

— H. Rider Haggard

“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”

— Anonymous

“How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!”

— Joan D. Vinge

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan