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That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said w...more

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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and ...more

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothin...more

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But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more ...more

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No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing...more

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All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employ...more

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...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

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It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies in...more

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Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded ...more

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For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

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...infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and enables us to analyse mechanisms of which otherwise we should know nothing. A man who falls str...more

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The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before ...more

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A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man eve...more

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But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had...more