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“The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.”

Ideas Self Imagination Memories Ignorance Accounts Attraction Dependent Aversion Serials

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”

War Reality Seems Age Poetry Found Lost Speak Memories Simple Daughter Tests Accounts Intuition Fantastic Revolt Unreal Actuality Artifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.”

School Memories Emotion Family High School Accounts Oneself Tension Awkward Reunion Embers

Author:Anita Shreve

“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”

Knows Ideas Lost Memories Secret Virtue Path Personality Return Accounts Sight Mood Sail Our Memories Voyages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

“There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.”

Persons Social Memories Situation Known Influence Accounts Conformity Contagion

Author:Rob Roberge

“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.”

Ideas Reason Night Memories Creative Crime Scene Accounts Awake Fragments Unreliable Fragmentation Eyewitnesses

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.”

Men Giving Past Memories Knowing Accounts Dull Score Old Man Recollection Chronicles Times Past

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.”

Ifs Ideas Facts Science Memories Brain Accounts Valuable No Idea Sweeping

Author:Vissarion Belinsky

“Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'”

Long Has Beens Science Memories Fool Accounts

Book:The Pursuivant of Arms; Or, Heraldry Founded Upon Facts

Source: The Pursuivant of Arms; Or, Heraldry Founded Upon Facts