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The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Salman Rushdie

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately

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History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Theodore Harold White

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Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Elie Wiesel

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero

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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

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A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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The Heart has the greatest retention power...... Things which touch the heart remain in memory forever, while the others fade away eventually!!!!

Siddharth Astir

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The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse.

Charles de LEUSSE

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