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Memory

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. – Maurice Baring

People tend to remember my performances, not me. – Ellen Barkin

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. – John M. Barrie

Never forget what you need to remember. – Garrett Bartley

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. – Basile

Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. – James Branch Cabell

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner