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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to stat...more

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The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to b...more

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Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it c...more

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Even painful memories are ties that bind.

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How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalg...more

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He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient towar...more

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We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to...more

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It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

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I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by ...more

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If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

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an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

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Until then her view of time was the present moving forward and devouring the future; she either feared its swiftness (when she was awaiting something ...more

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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of...more

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At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private l...more

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She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with wall...more