Top Memory Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
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
Norman Wisdom 
Giacomo Casanova 
Don Bluth 
Anita Loos 
Charles Baudelaire 
Aldous Huxley 
Rickie Lee Jones 
George Eliot 
Ethel Barrymore 
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois 
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell
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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas
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It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
Tracey Emin
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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Morgan Freeman
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
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Popular Memory Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli PlatoAbraham LincolnFrancis BaconGeorge EliotGeorge SantayanaThomas Fuller
Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusGertrude SteinRobert FrostElbert HubbardOliver Wendell HolmesRichard M. NixonJosh BillingsCharles BaudelairePierre Corneille
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