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I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

—Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending

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I didn't forget you. To this day, I have yet to walk through an airport without looking for your face, and every time it snows, I remember what it felt like to kiss you.

—Sharon Sala in Second Chances

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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

—Stella Adler

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War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.

—Adrienne Rich

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A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered — in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

—Tracy Thompson

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I know her face by heart. Sometimes I think nothing will break her spell.

—Daphne Merkin

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

—Henry Giles

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When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

—Groucho Marx

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I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

—Darren Shan in Sons of Destiny

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I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything.

—Laura Wiess in Leftovers

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

—Lewis Carroll

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

—Randall Jarrell

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When they don't love you the way you want to, you mourn that for however long you need to. But then you get back up and you remind yourself. You are not a reflection of the people who can't love you. You will love again. You will be loved again.

—Caitlyn Siehl

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