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    Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

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The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array read more

The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance.

by Paul Acquasanta Found in: Memory Quotes,
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

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Out of sighte, out of mynde.

Out of sighte, out of mynde.

by Lady Anne Bacon Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

by Frederich Nietzsche Found in: Memory Quotes,
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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

by Doug Larson Found in: Memory Quotes,
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A great many complimentary things have been said about the
faculty of memory, and if you look in a read more

A great many complimentary things have been said about the
faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you
will find them neatly arranged.

by Robertson Davies Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most
beautiful prizes slip through it.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most
beautiful prizes slip through it.

by Robertson Davies Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the read more

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

by Marcel Proust Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Though sands be black and bitter black the sea,
Night lie before me and behind me night,
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Though sands be black and bitter black the sea,
Night lie before me and behind me night,
And God within far Heaven refuse to light
The consolation of the dawn for me,--
Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell,
It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell
With memory.

by Madison Julius Cawein Found in: Memory Quotes,
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