To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

Orhan Pamuk
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  2. If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them... - Cassandra Clare

  3. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind... - Ralph Alfred Habas

  4. We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember. - Ian Bates

  5. The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost... - Paul Auster

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  1. Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

  2. Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

  3. Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

  4. After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

  5. In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now, " even having lived such a moment...

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