Read quote“This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.”
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About Memory
Remembering, forgetting, recollection, and the role of memory in identity and experience.
The collection
Words on Memory
Read quote“Dans l’identité de la France, Paris est à la fois une mémoire et une espérance.”
Read quote“But that was another time. Almost another country.”
Read quote“Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces.”
Read quote“Personally, I really like driving a Proton, because I have been using it for over 20 years, and it has sentimental value to me.”
Read quote“It’s victory scars, bro. Every time it pains, I remember what the sacrifice was worth.”
Read quote“J’y ai passé mes plus beaux jours.”
Read quote“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes.”
Read quote“He kept all these things locked up in a box, but it was the box of his ‘memory.’”
Read quote“They gave me the opportunity to have one of the most beautiful experiences of my life, which I will never forget.”
Read quote“I look back with joy on taking a brush of white paint and curving through the darkness with a line of white.”
Read quote“I hardly ever see my paintings around. I don’t have the faintest idea where half of my life’s work is.”
Read quote“La mémoire est, par essence, un fait biologique ; par accident, un fait psychologique.”
Read quote“درست است که من دور از وطنم هستم اما نه هیچوقت وطنم ایران را فراموش کردهام و نه هموطنانم را.”
Read quote“Songs that you like are songs that you remember.”
Read quote“However well I readjust myself to life in America, my youth, the best part of it, lies ever in the Orient.”
Read quote““No Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle.””
Read quote“I remember this production in particular as being one of the highlights of my young life.”
Read quote“Dziś, kiedy namiętności przygasły, nadeszła pora, by wyrzec o Steinkellerze zdanie bezstronne, skreślić bieg jego działań publicznych i oddać cześć pamięci zasłużonego krajowi obywatela.”
Read quote“I had to know thirty six operas by heart.”
Original editorial
Quote Stories about Memory
Small Things, Many Voices
Mina thought every object had one story—until her classmates taught her to listen for the others.
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A Box, Then a Door
Seventeen-year-old Elia expects a tidy catalog, but a box of undelivered letters leads her into the living memory of a harbor town—and toward a new way of helping people speak.
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