"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
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"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy"
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"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past."
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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
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"Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again."
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"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
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"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
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"We're all just memories of our future selves."
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"There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day."
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"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
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"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
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"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined."
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"That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break."
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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."
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"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."
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"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
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"You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost."
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
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"Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future."
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"Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little."
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