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"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."
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"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."
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"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."
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"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."
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"Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens."
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"You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me."
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"I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be."
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"These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device - a means of summing up and making a knot of innumerable little threads. Innumerable threads were there; still, if I stopped to disentangle, I could collect a number. But whatever the reason may be, I find that scene making is my natural way of marking the past."
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"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."
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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."
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"In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate."
Man
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
Trust
"Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows."
Life
"The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?"
Strength
"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
Battle
"Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."
Memory
"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
God
"We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely."
Work
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