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"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."
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"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."
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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."
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"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."
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"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead."
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"He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul."
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"He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended."
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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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"Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number."
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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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"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."
Life

"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot."
Knowledge

"Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that."
Humor

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
Literature

"Never trust he who trusts everyone."
Ethics

"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend."
Knowledge

"And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything."
Wisdom

"Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear."
Nature

"If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus."
Love

"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."
Existence
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