"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."

Memory, Thinking, Women, Reflection

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"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."

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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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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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."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

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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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"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."

George Orwell, British Author

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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 thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Memory, Humanity, Distance, Teaching

"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?"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Memories rob us of the present."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

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"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

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"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

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"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

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"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

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"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

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