Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Memories are worse than bullets.
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives. It was as simple and complicated as that.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.[Le souvenir est un engloutissement qu’un mot peut remuer jusqu’au fond.]
But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
All the old accumulated rubbish-years which we call memory.
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.[En cualquier lugar en que estuvieran recordaran siempre que el pasado era mentira, que la memoria no tenía caminos de regreso, que toda primavera antigua era irrecuperable, y que el amor más desatinado y tenaz era de todos modos una verdad efímera.]
To learn is not to know; there are the learners a the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.[Apprendre n’est pas savoir ; il y a les sachants et les savants : c’est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c’est la philosophie qui fait les autres.]
To be able to forget means sanity.
