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The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.
Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.
Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Emotion is the glue that causes memories to stick.
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
The fires of history burn hot and long, but memories of fires do not burn long enough.
There is a need to understand, and I will never tire of repeating this, that shared memory is not a joke.
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