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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 ...

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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is reme...

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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

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But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory ...

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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... ...

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C. S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, ver...

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The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; sh...

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When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in...

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Chuck KlostermanKilling Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the nee...

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Trying to remember old dreams. A voice. Who came in.And meanwhile the rain, all day, all evening,qui...

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It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.

The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w...

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Frederick BuechnerA Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after d...

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I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should ...

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I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, li...

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My brother distrusts the essential truth of memories; I distrust the way we colour them in. We each ...

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Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to ...

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When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. Bu...

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She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have...

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I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the...

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But often, in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspea...

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Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.

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Orhan PamukThe Innocence of Objects

I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you ...

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Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the i...

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...

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But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

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This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was withi...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Dance of the Dissident Daughter