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Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1666

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

—Sappho, c. 600 BC

There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

—James Baldwin, 1953

Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.

—Margaret Cavendish, 1655

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

—Phyllis Rose, 1991

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

—Edith Konecky, 1976

Time robs us of all, even of memory.

—Virgil, c. 40 BC

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

—Willa Cather, 1918

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

—Marcel Proust, c. 1922