#memo

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #memory #life

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality. ↗

— Brad Herzog

#camp #memory #nostalgia #age

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

— Cesare Pavese

#memory #life

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. ↗

— Dieter Rams

#good #great #intelligible #making #meaningful

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory ↗

— Sam Savage

#impermanence #last #life #memory #life

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#reading #strange

I thought you had forgotten me.” “I have spent my life remembering you. ↗

— Meredith Ann Pierce

#memory #life

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9 ↗

— Dean Hughes

#longing #memory #life