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"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me."
"There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race."
"Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful."
"To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before."
"We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective."
"A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage."
"The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on."
"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
"The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon."
"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things."
"Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this."
"A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife."
"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
"Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us."
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
"Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories."
"Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart."
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."
