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• Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Memories, Past

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

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• A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Memories, Assets

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• Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Memories, Book

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Beautiful, Memories

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• There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Home, Years

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

  Georges Duhamel

  Missing You, Memories, Good Life

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

  Alice Munro

  Memories, People, Different

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 04, 2010

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• My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

  Griffin Dunne

  Memories, Actors, Hunger

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  A. E. Housman

  Morning, Memories, Skins

  The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933)

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• The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Change, Memories, Men

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• A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

  Raul Julia

  Memories, Remembrance, Reminiscing

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• There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

  Richard Krajicek

  Memories, Wife, Tennis

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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  Philip Levine

  Memories, People, Poetry

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

  Samuel Alexander

  Memories, Expectations, Mere

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• My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Memories, Daddy, Trying

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• You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Home

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.163, Penguin

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• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Regret, Lifetime

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2192, Delphi Classics

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

  Persis Khambatta

  Beautiful, Memories, Happened

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• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Past, Details

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• I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Memories, Remember, Barbers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Giving, Tongue

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• I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Beautiful, Memories, Cherry Blossom

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• Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

  Jung Woo

  Memories, Together We Can, Gone

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• Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Memories, Night

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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