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But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her, — Monique Martin

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past. — Paul Kearney

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

We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date. — Yu Hua

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. — Umberto Eco

Preservation of the past has been one of humankind's chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving. — Chris Flynn

But the memory of past sorrow
is it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe

A memory elbowed its way past Bishop's fear and stood defiant in the forefront of his mind. Bishop Washington never forgot a face. — Ninie Hammon

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno

Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present. — Jamaica Kincaid

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. — Martha Beck

The past remains hidden in clouds of memory. — Basho Matsuo

When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future. — Stephen R. Covey

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past. — T.L. Rese

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss. — Richard Flanagan

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. — Aimee Bender

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Henri Bergson

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

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

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now. — Rabih Alameddine

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. — Robert Penn Warren

All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy. — Ashim Shanker

Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom. — Suzy Kassem

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood

I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again. — John Connolly

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone — Richard Puz

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. — Daniel Schacter

Sometimes you can't let go of the past without facing it again. — Gail Tsukiyama

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. — Ally Condie

I serve."
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing. — Jim Butcher

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception. — Ashim Shanker

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past. — Alex Garland

Over the past seven years she had managed to push his memory so far back in her mind that he could've been a figment of her imagination. — Vivian Winslow

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. — Rabindranath Tagore

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable — Peter Ackroyd

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that? — Jeanette Winterson

Putting the past behind you isn't like stuffing something in the back of a drawer or trimming a loose thread. The past has a life of its own. — Maggie Mitchell

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. — Wallace Stegner

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. — Edgar Allan Poe

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was. — Jenim Dibie

Memories rob us of the present. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past. — Sharon Cameron

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner

Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons. — Indu Muralidharan

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals. — Maurice Chevalier

Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived. — Janet Turpin Myers

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. — Orson Scott Card

If the brain is a prediction engine, memory is its fuel. We can argue that the only reason we need memory of the past is so we can inform the future. — Carmen Simon

In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory — John Connolly

I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past. — Emma Donoghue

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire

The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great! — Meena Sarine

Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past! — Mikhail Bulgakov

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. — Justin Cronin

How do we know that it refers to the past? That is the real problem of memory. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. — Jean-Henri Fabre

Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory. — Jesse Ball

Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past. — Kishore Bansal

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life. — Edward R. Murrow

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ... — Amitav Ghosh

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule. — Steve Erickson

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future. — Jaggi Vasudev

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. — Rollo May

There is no judgment upon you; there is no memory of the past; there is only the understanding of this moment. — Joel Goldsmith

They both smiled - Link at the memory of all the pie in his past, Macon at the thought of all the pie in his future. — Kami Garcia

The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon
it would lie outside the experience of all living men. — Arthur C. Clarke

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased. — Eva Hoffman

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. — Patricia Hampl

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind — Jacques Roubaud

We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits. — Norman Lock

The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots. Impossible to tear it out, but possible to hide the memory of it. — Leo Tolstoy

It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable. — Fay Weldon

These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps. — Nathan Filer

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? — Thomas Mann

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. — Paulo Coelho

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death. — Albert Camus

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past. — Tahar Djaout