"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."

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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?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Memory, Moment, Life, Mind

"I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Memory, History, Reflection, Suffering

"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."

David Levithan, American Author

Memory, Time, Life, Light

"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

Memory, Time, Identity, Reflection, Life

"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."

David Levithan, American Author

Memory, Life, Past, Emotion

"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."

Siri Hustvedt, American Novelist

Memory, Reflection, Truth, Wisdom

"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Memory, Joy, Life, Past

"Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it."

Marilynne Robinson, American Author

Memory, Loss, Reflection, Truth

"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."

Lee Krasner, American Artist

Memory, Right

"You never know when you're making a memory."

Rickie Lee Jones, American Musician

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"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!"

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"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."

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"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."

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"One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff."

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"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."

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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?"

"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."

"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."

"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."

"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."

"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."

"Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it."

"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."

"You never know when you're making a memory."

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"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!"

"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."

"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."

"One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff."

"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."

"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."

"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."