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QUOTES ON MEMORY


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

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

Memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better.

CHARLES DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim

Ah what agony is that, what despair, when the tomb of memory is rent open and the ghosts of his old life comes forth to scourge him!

UPTON SINCLAIR, The Jungle

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and ... thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Love in the Time of Cholera

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Light in August

Old age was not a rushing torrent but a bottomless cistern where ... memory drained away.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Love in the Time of Cholera

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

CORMAC MCCARTHY, The Road

The man who has no memory makes one out of paper.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Love in the Time of Cholera

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