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Memory

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

37.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.