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"Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely."
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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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"He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect."
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"Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood."
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Personal Development
"It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh."
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Personal Development
"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
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"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"
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"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
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"Memories rob us of the present."
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Personal Development
"In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Cultural
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
Talent
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
Love
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Self
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
People
"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."
Spiritual
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