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"We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings."
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"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head."
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"There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning."
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"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."
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"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich."
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"Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten."
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"And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold, And freshen in this air of withering sweetness."
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"The past is obdurate."
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"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."
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"I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost."
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"The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed."
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"The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."
Self

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
Education

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
Wisdom

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
Friendship

"A home without books is a body without soul."
Home

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
Nothing

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
Life

"Hatred is settled anger."
Anger

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
People

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
Friendship
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