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Samuel Johnson

"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution."

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"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution."

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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

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

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"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

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"The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature."

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"Create memories, forget misery."

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"Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory."

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"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

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"[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision."

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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."

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"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."

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"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."

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"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."

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