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"When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction."
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Personal Development
"I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. Back to wherever they are. Stay with me, I want to say. But they won't."
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Personal Development
"I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once."
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Personal Development
"By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself."
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Personal Development
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
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Personal Development
"Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."
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Personal Development
"Everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ..."
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Personal Development
"The marks we leave are too often scars."
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Personal Development
"Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns."
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Personal Development
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Intelligence
"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
Love
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
People
"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
Goal
"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."
War
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
Fear
"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
Advice
"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
Woman
"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."
Los Angeles
"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
Psychoanalysis
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