The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter … gave rise to fresh insights.
Ivan KlímaTag: past youth childhood memory
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
Steve ToltzTag: memory
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
Dante AlighieriTag: inspirational memory beginnings
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
Christopher PaoliniTag: humor history memory recall
A kind of memory that tells us
that what we're now striving for was
once
nearer and truer and attached to us
with infinite tenderness. Here all is
distance,
there it was breath. After the first
home
the second one seems draughty and
strangely sexed.
It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).
Lauro MartinesTag: history memory historians censure the-past context moralists propagandists
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?
Bernhard SchlinkIch hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin.
Marlene DietrichTag: roots home memory homelessness anchoring attachment belonging reminiscence berlin
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTag: eternity living dead memory
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
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