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"I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back."
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"I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared."
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"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."
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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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"You never know when you're making a memory."
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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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"Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself."
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"My memory of the school building itself, its rooms and lockers, blackboards, and hallways, bring on a heavy, oppressive feeling. Whether I was more unhappy in school than any of my friends I don't know. I never would have said I didn't like school, and there are moments I distinctly remember enjoying, but these truths don't alter my memory of that place."
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"It's true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.''Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.''That's not insight. That's a personal guarantee."
Miracles
"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."
Duty
"I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back."
Memory
"Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished."
Maturity
"Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it."
Politics
"It's a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not."
Birth
"I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given."
Triumph
"The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it."
Humor
"People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force."
Decisions
"I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men."
Taste
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