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If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.
When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
I am struck by the memories of all of the fantastic Links ladies who worked so hard to host the Ebony Fashion Fair shows.
Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
My early memories of my dad were taking me to play football when I was six - they are happy ones. They are my favourites.
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.
I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.
I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.
But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.