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• I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

  Anna Funder

  Beautiful, School, Names

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books

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• I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Kissing, Lips, Left

  Charles Bukowski, “Raw With Love”

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• I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]

  Julian Barnes

  Years, Laughing, Boredom

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• That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today

  William Faulkner

  People, Today, Tomorrow

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

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• My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Together, Topsoil, Flash

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• What you remember saves you.

  W. S. Merwin

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• We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Enjoy, Know How

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.116, Broadway Books

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• Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Art, Medicine

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• The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Taken

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.262, Penguin

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• Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Doors, Bores You

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing (1962), Introduction, 1971 edition.

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• People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

  John Green

  Real, Doctors, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Thinking, Reflection

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• One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Hero

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Heart, Childhood, Moments

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.230, Open Road Media

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• And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.

  Douglas Coupland

  Morning, Thinking, Years

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• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grief, Night, Blue

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Insomnia, Islands

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.

  John Green

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Voice

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.202, Penguin

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• So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Giving Up, Feet

  "Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

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• There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Lying, Humanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.716, Routledge

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• Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Philosophy, Humanity

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.565, Routledge

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• remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

  Ali Smith

  Remember You, Remembers You, Mist

  Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.26, Penguin UK

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• Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Coquetry, Concern

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• Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.

  Kami Garcia

  Nice, Balls, Hey

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• I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

  Beatrix Potter

  Children, Real, Believe

  Journal entry, from the National Trust collection, November 17, 1968.

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