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“We don’t even survive in the memories of the living. Science has destroyed that myth. Whenever we remember something, what we’re doing is remembering the last time we remembered it; our memory does...”
“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the...”
“Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morni...”
“It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it ...”
“Moments don’t last forever, but their memories do.”
“It’s our memories that teach us who we are.”
“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.”
“It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?”
“I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.”
“Why don’t we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?”
“Sometimes it’s nice to remember the little things.”
“One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep.”
“One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was a real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep.”
“The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends’ marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.”
“Today, unlocking the room and stepping into its dusty embrace, it struck her – the bareness, the cobwebs in the corners, the dark squares on the walls where the maps had once hung, the intricately ...”
“Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.”
“Adán fell asleep to these stories and slept like the dead until the sun struck him in the eyes and the whole long, wonderful summer day started again with the smell of fresh tortillas, manchaca, ch...”
“Is it not possible — I often wonder — that things we have felt with great intensity have an experience independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible,i...”
“Is it not possible — I often wonder — that thingswe have felt with great intensity have anexperience independent of our minds; are in factstill in existence? And if so, will it not be possible,in t...”
“Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.”
