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“There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.”
“How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory.”
“You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.”
“The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.”
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and sti...”
“That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.”
“I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world in one rigid form. Bear believed writing dulled the spirit, stilled some holy breath. Smot...”
“No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.”
“Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.”
“Memory is dynamic, it's alive.”
“Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would li...”
“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay...”
“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has ar...”
“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 i...”
“The memories: they are the reality.”
“To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order...”
“Perhaps my sense of reality is not very highly developed, perhaps I lack a sound and reassuring instinct for the solid facts of our earthly existence; I cant always tell memories from dreams, and o...”
“We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.”
“Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last.”
“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
