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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
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Never forget what you need to remember.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.
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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?
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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Memory is the thing you forget with.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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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.
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Lord, keep my memory green.
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
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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.
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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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.
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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We have all forgot more than we remember.
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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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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.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
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Memories are all we really own.
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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.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
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The selective memory isn't selective enough.
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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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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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We don't remember days; we remember moments.
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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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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.
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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