"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Memory, Childhood, Power, Friendship

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"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

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"He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul."

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"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."

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"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

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"Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"It's not that I can't remember. It's that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it."

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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

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"Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?But I was doomed to live."

Life

"It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason."

Being

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave."

Mortality

"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?"

Existentialism

"When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, and the soft murmurs of the breeze that scattered her hair and freshened her cheek, and the dashing of the waters that has no beginning or end."

Serenity

"I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."

Creation

"Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!"

Experience

"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."

Evil

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos."

Chaos

"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."

Solace