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There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

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A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another...more

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You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What ...more

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People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

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They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time. I got so mad, I l...more

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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past....more

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We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. Th...more

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But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories ...more

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Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a d...more

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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

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Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it's too vivid, if you know wha...more

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The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can...more