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He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.

—Elias Canetti, 1954

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

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913

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

—James Baldwin, 1953

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1886

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658

Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.

—Iris Murdoch, 1985

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

—Sappho, c. 600 BC
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