Top Memory Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton
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I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
Studs Terkel 
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You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
Janet Jackson 
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