#memory

History takes time. History makes memory. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#makes #memory #takes #time

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. ↗

— Quintilian

#fitting #good #good memory #liar #man

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #augments #because #continually #deeds

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#chance #chemical #dangerous #everything #find

A liar should have a good memory. ↗

— Quintilian

#good memory #liar #memory #should

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. ↗

— Eugène Ionesco

#reality #dreams

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#good memory #i #memory #more #pretty

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bad #keys #memory