If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had happened then would be coloured by what had happened in between. It was like a country remembering its history: the past was never just the past, it was what made the present able to live with itself.

Julian Barnes

Mots clés history memory the-past

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At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past may ultimately depend on elements so basic that they bring to mind a simple Slav proverb I once came across and never forgot: Eat bread and salt and speak the truth. They are the recovery of fact, public accountability and the instituting of fair trials of one sort or another, to help mark ends and beginnings and to return the moral compass as close to the centre as possible.

Erna Paris

Mots clés justice memory genocide war-crimes

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But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.

Erna Paris

Mots clés justice memory

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Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

Diana Gabaldon

Mots clés memory play lines

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Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

James Carroll

Mots clés memory

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Сколько времени помнишь запах человека, который тебя любил? А когда сама перестаешь любить? Мне нужны песочные часы.

Анна Гавальда

Mots clés love memory

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The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Charles Wright

Mots clés memory

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We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

Mira Bartok

Mots clés memory memories

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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

Mira Bartok

Mots clés memory hummingbird amber

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I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Patricia Hampl

Mots clés imagination knowledge writing memory

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