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I said out loud, "Damn you for saving yourself. How come you left me with nothing but to love you an...

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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

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

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...

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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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I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and ba...

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Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

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Alexander PopeEssay on Man and Other Poems

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

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Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon

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

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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness...

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You are remembered for the rules you break.

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,And even Despair was powerless to destroy,Then did ...

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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

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what ne...

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Giorgio AgambenPotentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no g...

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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-no...

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I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life...

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Irvin D. YalomLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor...

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almos...

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And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what i...

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years conde...

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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve...

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Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house o...

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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ...

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Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off....

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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of a...

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