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“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”

Shows Memories Failing Office Buried Tombs

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Memories History Generations Succeed First Time Burden Assumption Buried Persist Predecessors

Author:Joanna Russ

“We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.”

Ifs Trying Persons Used Loses Memories Talent Miserable Buried Misers

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.”

Memories Brain Essentials Survival Buried Nuts Exquisite Good Memories Squirrels

Author:Daniel Levitin

“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Knows Found Names Memories Tongue Buried Utterance

Book:A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

Source: A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

“Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

World Art Soul Feelings Culture Memories Art Is Everyday Dust Buried Everyday Life Introduction Cultures Of The World Tender Feelings

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.”