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Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned to you? All the memories of my youth speak to me as I walk, just as the sea shells crunch under my feet on the beach. The crash of every wave awakens far-distant reverberations within me... I hear the rumble of bygone days, and in my mind the whole endless series of old passions surges forward like the billows. I remember my spasms, my sorrows, gusts of desire that whistled like wind in the rigging, and vast vague longings that swirled in the dark like a flock of wild gulls in a stormcloud... On whom should I lean, if not on you? My weary mind turns for refreshment to the thought of you as a dusty traveler might sink onto a soft and grassy bank... ↗


— Gustave Flaubert


#memories #trust #love

He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness. ↗


— Erik Tomblin


#happiness #love #soulmates #love

...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over... ↗


— John Geddes


#love #memory #poetry #stone #love

The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze. ↗


— Dimitra Ekmektsis


#dimitra-ekmektsis #memoir #quotes-i-love #love

I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down: how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger ↗


— Mary Karr


#love

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. ↗


— Mark Twain


#memory #beauty

You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted to learn. And it's kind of like those animals that regrow a part of their body--like a starfish. You might not feel it. You might not even want to grow, but you will. You'll grow that part that broke off, and that growing, that blooming--cannot happen without the pain. ↗


— Kelle Hampton


#growth-process #life-changes #painful-memories #beauty

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad. ↗


— Alexandra Bogdanovic


#memoir #truth #marriage

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. ↗


— Joshua Foer


#memory #memory-loss #art

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you. ↗


— Madeline Miller


#glory #heroes #memory #mythology #time






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