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We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them. — Denis Johnson

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory. — Katherine Center

Such is human memory ... you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better. — Rick Riordan

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future. — Mary Warnock

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget. — Stant Litore

They live in human memory, man. That's what keeps them alive. — Rick Riordan

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. — Varlam Shalamov

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences. — Daniel Tammet

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory. — Ben Brantley

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled. — Raymond L. Atkins

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller

For a sweet moment, the weight of human and godly concerns lifted from Justin, and he was left only with the memory of that kiss. — Richelle Mead

Is this neuro-bot really supposed to be her, this creature, this thing, compiled of the ghosts of human data, the replicas of their past? — Bremer Acosta

Human memory is short and terribly fickle. — Janine Di Giovanni

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. — Simon Schama

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet — Frans De Waal

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. — William, Saroyan

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. — Tony Buzan

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. — Nelson Mandela

I shook my head back and forth as though I was a human etch-a-sketch, erasing the memory. — Nicole Gulla

are three main types of memory in the human brain; — Ryan Cooper

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms. — Ida Tarbell

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. — Gordon Bell

Human working memory is able to hold no more than some four or five chunks of information at any given time. — Nick Bostrom

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. — Mark Van Doren

How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence. — Don DeLillo

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. — Ivan Klima

Vampires did not kill indiscriminately. They took blood when they needed it and left the human donor with no memory of the — J.S. Scott

But he has still a vague memory that he was a human once, — J.M. Barrie

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau

One of the minor tragedies of human memory is our inability to unwatch movies we'd love to see (again) for the first time. — Chuck Klosterman

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. — Hilary Mantel

She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation. — Peter Watts

Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. — Elie Wiesel

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence? — Joshua Foer

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past. — Deborah L. Norris

Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again. — Chelsey Philpot

A life is bookended by forgetting, as though memory forms the tunnel that leads into and out of a human body. — Sarah Hepola

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God. — Roger Ebert

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. — Giacomo Casanova

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire. — Samuel Johnson

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. — Gunter Grass

It was just the same old familiar moon. The one and only satellite that has faithfully circled the earth, at the same speed, from before human memory. — Haruki Murakami

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human. — Nenia Campbell

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions — Salman Rushdie

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Ovid

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good. — Wale

If you take another lover, Elena" - he thrust back in, making her gasp - "what I do to him will become a nightmare etched in human memory. — Nalini Singh

People say life is short.
life's not short - it's long.
the memory of a human being: that's what's short. — Julio Alexi Genao

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable. — Rick Yancey

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. — Joshua Foer