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When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and...more

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For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memor...more

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If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had h...more

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He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the...more

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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my...more

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But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.

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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortab...more

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You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

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What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?''History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that...more

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Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange.

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In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I ...more

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We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said th...more

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...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

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Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our h...more