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Memory

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Irish

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Michel de Montaigne

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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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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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon