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Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
The Post-Office Girl
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.
The World of Yesterday
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The memory itself is full of acid, and eventually they are is more than all the cries of pain, and all the horrified faces of the past, with increasingly deaf appeals, of which we glimpse vague outlines.
Livret de Famille
I believe that we still hear on the doorways the footsteps of those who had crossed them, and, since then, have disappeared.
Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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