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Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886

Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913

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

—Edith Konecky, 1976

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

—Sappho, c. 600 BC

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 109

Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.

—Gertrude Stein, 1935

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

—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321

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

—Phyllis Rose, 1991

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

—Margaret Cavendish, 1655

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

—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990

Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

—Harriet Doerr, 1978

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

Memory is more indelible than ink.

—Anita Loos, 1974