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"I've a grand memory for forgetting."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
Love
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
Lie
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Man
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
Nature
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now."
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"...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty."
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"Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?"
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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
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"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
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"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."
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"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
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"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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