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Memory Quotes
"Aelin sighed. 'This place has been shut down for months, and yet I swear I can still hear the music floating in the air.'Rowan angled his head, studying the dark with those immortal senses. 'Perhaps the music does live on, in some form.'The thought made her eyes sting."
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"When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance."
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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."
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"A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present."
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"My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder."
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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."
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"I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain."
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"We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the world. We must travel if we want to find them and flush them from their hiding places!"
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"Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestation throughout all the pages of his memory."
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"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."
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"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
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"Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations."
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"You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me."
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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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"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."
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"My memory is good for some things and not others."
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"I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces."
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"Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,In pleasing memory of all he stole."
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"Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday."
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"I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence."
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"You forget the life you had before, after awhile. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls on a string. Cut the knot and they scatter across the floor, rolling into dark corners never to be found again. So you move on, and eventually you forget what the pearls even looked like. At least, you try."
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"I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child."
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"An addition that takes time to depart, and sometimes, never leaves at all. A smell, a touch, thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! .... A pungent of cinnamon, an aroma of a rose, a summer breeze, a sweet smile like a per-fume that lingers on and on... endlessly."
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"If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?"
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"I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago."
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"Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it."
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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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"He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch."
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"Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board."
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"Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me."
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"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
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