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Memory Quotes

"Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist"

"The footfalls of the centuries echo through my being"

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors the men it remembers"

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"

"Pain engraves a deeper memory."

"The storyteller's task is to name what is lost"

"Memory's truth is to desire"

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."

"Forgive your enemies but never forget their names"

"Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality"

"In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense"

"The dead, I think, may be at peace, but we'll live with their wrath forever and have to endure the employment of the living to constantly remind us of it."

"You guys know how I am. I don’t forget anything."

"You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?"

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