"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
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"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."
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"If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!"
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"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures."
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"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."
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"Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."
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"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
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"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself — soul-less and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life."
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"You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly."
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"If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived."
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"History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living."
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"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
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"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present."
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"Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories."
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"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."
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"A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard."
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"The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories."
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"Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past."
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"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
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"Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
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