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• If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.

  Carl Victor De Bonstetten
   
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• Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

  Paul De Man
  In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• themselves
• conception
• sometimes
• according
• clearness
• metaphors

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