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“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”
“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”
“Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”
“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most.Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with...”
“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.”
“My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.”
“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
“Every life has a sound”
“We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.”
“He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.”
“If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shamef...”
“But who cares? Memory isn't about reality, and neither is music. It's about the comforting reflections we want to hold on to, even if they're mostly bullshit.”
“You're really going to do it, aren't you? You're really going to go back to war?" Gregor said. He could feel something boiling up inside of him. "So, we'll just forget about what happened. The jung...”
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
“War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.”
“This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link the...”
“We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember.”
“remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.”
