#recollect

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. ↗

— Plato

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My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#nostalgia #recollection #love

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ↗

— Jack Levine

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I have always been honest about my recollection of events. ↗

— David Blunkett

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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