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Memory Quotes
"Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be."
8
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
8
"I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book."
8
"Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached."
8
"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."
8
"I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me."
8
"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."
8
"She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns."
8
"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."
8
"I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me that story of the girl who hated footprints and shadows, so she tried to run away from both. But her shadow was always there, and she only made more footprints by running."
8
"You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory."
7
"Do not allow me to forget you."
7
"Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played."
7
"I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child."
7
"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore."
7
"Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say."
7
"Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life."
7
"The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories."
6
"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."
6
"But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, smell and taste still remain for a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, on the ruin of all the rest, bearing without giving way, on their almost impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory."
6
"There is somethingmystically sadand beautifulabouthowi will neversee youagainbut meet youagain and againin poetry."
6
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."
6
"What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed."
6
"Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time."
6
"The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
6
"Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs."
6
"Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were."
6
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."
6
"I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams."
5
"I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep."I woke and chid my honest fingers,-The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own."
5
"Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don't there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little."
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