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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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past
pleasure
remembrance
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Jane Austen |
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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
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remembrance
the-past
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Margaret Atwood |
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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
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immortality
remembrance
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Terry Pratchett |
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There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
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remembrance
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Isabel Allende |
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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory
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remembrance
inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
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death
deeds
evil
good
legacy
remembrance
reputation
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William Shakespeare |
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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knowledge
memory
remembrance
understanding
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Amy Tan |
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Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils roots out the work of masonry, Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till judgement that yourself arise, You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.
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fame
memory
monuments
posterity
remembrance
sonnet-55
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William Shakespeare |
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The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
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remembrance
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Elizabeth Kostova |
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As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
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death
persist
persistence
remembrance
wine
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Thomas Pynchon |
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There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat for you and when you are gone, it will beat for your children and theirs, forever. Forever. Until there is no water, no air, no green in the spring or gold in the autumn, no stars in the sky or wind from the north. And when you cannot speak, it will speak for you. When you cannot see, it will be your eyes. When you cannot remember, it will be your memory. It will never forget you. And when you cannot be faithful, it will save a place for your return. This is a gift to you. It cannot be taken away. It is yours forever. It is the narrative of this world, and the scrapbook of your own small life, and, when you are gone into ash and darkness and the grave, it will tell your story.
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remembrance
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Robert Goolrick |
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I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone -
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melancholy
remembrance
skeleton
transience
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Mervyn Peake |
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When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.
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haruki-murakami
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loneliness
lonely
past
remembrance
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Haruki Murakami |
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. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
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human
love
memory
perish
remember
remembrance
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Denis Johnson |
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Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
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past
remembrance
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P.D. James |
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Wie ich heimschritt bemerkte ich mit einemmal vor mir meinen eigenen Schatten so wie ich den Schatten des anderen Krieges hinter dem jetzigen sah. Er ist durch all diese Zeit nicht mehr von mir gewichen dieser Schatten er uberhing jeden meiner Gedanken bei Tag und bei Nacht vielleicht liegt sein dunkler Umriss auch auf manchen Blattern dieses Buches. Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzten doch auch Kind des Lichts und nur wer Helles und Dunkles Krieg und Frieden Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.
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europe
mourning
peace
remembrance
war
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Stefan Zweig |
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The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.
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paradox
remembrance
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Margaret Atwood |
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And even if we are occupied by most important things, if we attain to honour, or fall into great misfortune -- still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us...better perhaps than we are.
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remembrance
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else--but I also can't last a day without seeing them. Visiting with them when I am alone in the house.
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remembrance
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Chris Bohjalian |
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Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him strangers will bear report to the whole wide world, and distant men will praise him. - Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)
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kindness
legacy
meaning-of-life
penelope
remembrance
respect
success
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Robert Fitzgerald |
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I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.
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poetry
remembrance
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Daphne du Maurier |
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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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individuality
memories
names
remembrance
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Lois Lowry |
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Every man in the chapel hoped that when his hour came he, too, would be eulogized, which is to say forgiven, and that all of his lapses, greeds, errors, and strayings from the truth would be invested with coherence and looked upon with charity. This was perhaps the last thing humans could give each other and it was what they demanded, after all, of the Lord.
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death
eulogies
forgiveness
funerals
generosity
remembrance
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James Baldwin |
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"Live," he whispered. "For my Chaya. For all our Chayas. Live. And remember." --
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jewish
remembrance
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Jane Yolen |
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Sjecaj me se s ruzom - rekao joj je.
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memories
remembrance
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead, Full of the grateful peace That follows her release; For nothing but the weary dust lies dead.
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death
emotion
joy
remembrance
sadness
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Louisa May Alcott |
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"I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don't want to be "just another patient". I wanted to be "special". I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn't forget. I'd exist then. (Marge's letter to Yalom)"
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existential
psychology
remembrance
self-esteem
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