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I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brigh...more

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted th...more

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He could swear he did not look back, could not—by any optical chance, or in any prism—have seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadf...more

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I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a signboard had one word spelled ...more

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For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebble...more

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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events...more

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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing...more

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I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No ma...more

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IphWas a larvorium and a violet:A grave in Reason's early spring. And yetIt missed the gist of the whole thing; it missedWhat mostly interests the pre...more

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I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody ...more

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The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason ...more