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They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.
Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. A year impairs, a luster obliterates.
There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment — but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
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Eliot With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life— this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?
One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
All we know is that recollection may not be within our power. Up to the present we have filled that gap in our power with the word "forget," just as if it were another addition to our list of faculties. 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.
But that gift can seem like a curse, they say, keeping them marooned in the past and unable to enjoy the present. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic. Joel and Clementine do not know that they were mates in the past. Audible Download Audio Books. She blames her memory for this, saying it separates her from other people her age because they can't understand why she's so focused on things that have already happened. It really bothers her.
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