Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to fo

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. – Michel de Montaigne

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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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

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