#memory

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#labor #leave #memory #only #stuff

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

#doing #exactly #great #happened #i

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#back #forever #get #memory #perfect

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

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Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. ↗

— Max Muller

#feeling #grown #memory #nought #older

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ↗

— Alice Munro

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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ↗

— Alice Munro

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