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Memory

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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.

Ionesco, Eugene

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen