Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma."
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Recollection
32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Plato
Philosopher
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Wishes are recollections coming from the future."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad."
Pliny the Younger
Lawyer, Author
"The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it."
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"We have all forgot more than we remember."
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"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
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"Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered."
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"We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"Immortality is the best recollection one leaves."
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"The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living."
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"Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past."
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"This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret."
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