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"There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long."

"I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?"

"I would like people to remember of me, howinexhaustible was her mindfulness."

"I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends."

"We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living."

"I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know."

"And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary."

"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."

"On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars."

"Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you."
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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence."
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