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“"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”
Jeremy Irons
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
T.S. Eliot
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”
Anatole France
“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.”
Bob Dylan
“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.”
Oscar Wilde
“I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.”