Memories Quote by Joseph Conrad

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.” quote by Joseph Conrad — Download Open image

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”

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I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from…

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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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