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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Clifton Fadiman
Memory
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert
Memory
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith
Memory
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
Memory
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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.
Memory
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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.
Matthew Arnold
Memory
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
Memory
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
Memory
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
Memory
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Memory
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Michel de Montaigne
Memory
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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.
Primo Levi
Memory
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.
Fred Allen
Memory
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
Luis Buñuel
Memory
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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noël Coward
Memory
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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
Joe E. Lewis
Memory
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Memory, Death
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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
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.
Dale Carnegie
Memory
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
Memory
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
Memory
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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.
George Will
Memory
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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?
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
Memory
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
Memory
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
Memory
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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.
Walter Benjamin
Memory
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Lord, keep my memory green.
Charles Dickens
Memory
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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!
Alexander Pope
Memory
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Memory
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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
Antoine de Rivarol
Memory
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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.
Thomas Fuller M.D.
Memory
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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.
Thomas Fuller M.D.
Memory
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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.
Walter Benjamin
Memory
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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Memory
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Memory
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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
Jean Paul
Memory
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Aristotle
Memory
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Cicero
Memory
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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do
Memory
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
Edgar Allan Poe
Memory
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Never memorize what you can look up in books
Albert Einstein
Memory
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Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
Memory
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Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift
Memory
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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Henry David Thoreau
Memory
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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
Memory
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly
Memory
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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.
Marcel Proust
Memory
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau
Memory
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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.
Memory
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Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
Virgil
Memory
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
Memory
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Thomas à Kempis
Memory
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope
Memory
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
Memory
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So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Memory
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather
Memory
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Cicero
Memory
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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel
Memory
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust
Memory
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
Memory
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen
Memory
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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.
Salvador Dalí
Memory
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel García Márquez
Memory
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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.
Eugène Ionesco
Memory
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Michel de Montaigne
Memory
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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.
Søren Kierkegaard
Memory
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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
Memory
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers
Memory
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
Memory
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
Memory
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
Memory
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca the Younger
Memory
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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.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Memory
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
Memory
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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
Edgar Allan Poe
Memory, Observation
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster
Memory
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad
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.
Marcel Proust
Memory
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
Memory
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We don't remember days; we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Memory
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Memory
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We have all forgot more than we remember.
Thomas Fuller M.D.
Memory
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Samuel Johnson
Memory
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Mark Twain
Memory
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare
Memory
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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Memory
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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.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Memory
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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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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.
Luis Buñuel
Memory
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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
Will Rogers
Memory
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