Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
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Remembrance
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Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."
Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation."
Rene Magritte
Surrealist Artist
"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."
H. G. Wells
Writer
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
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"A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history."
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"Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth."
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"In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself."
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"I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works."
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"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
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"Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance."
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"Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance."
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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
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"There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you."
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"Everyone dies but not everyone lives."
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"Remembrance of things past."
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"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."
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"This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal."
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"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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"Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated."
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"All knowledge is but remembrance."
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"Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists."
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"There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate."
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"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
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"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
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