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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

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

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