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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. - Samue

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and — I cant remember what the third thing is. – Fred A. Allen

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Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. – From the movie An Affair to Remember, written by Delmer Daves, Donald Ogden Stew

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The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973

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