Life seems to me to consist of three parts: the absorbing and usually enjoyable present which rushes on from minute to minute with fatal speed; the future, dim and uncertain, for which one can make any number of interesting plans, the wilder and more improbable the better, since — as nothing will turn out as […]
Memory - Memories Quotes
I learned that even after a single day’s experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He’d have laid up enough memories never to be bored. (“The Stranger”)
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
I consider time as an immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
I don’t remember anybody’s name. How do you think the “dahling” thing got started?
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Melody is a form of remembrance… It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
