Quotations on Memory
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
-Edward M. Forster
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
Every man's memory is his private literature.
-Aldous Huxley
We have a memory so that we might have roses in December.
-James M. Barrie
Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
-Edgar Allan Poe
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
-Peter De Vries
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
-Cesare Pavese
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-Salvador Dali

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