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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

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The work of memory collapses time.

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To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

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Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead...more

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What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

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The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should...more

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The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.