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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
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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.
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
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Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.
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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.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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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.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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