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“Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.”

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Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

“The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.”

Should Real Reason Dream Reality Imagination Memories Destroyed Reason Why No Reason Conform Our Dreams Arbitrary Our Memories Elusive Selected

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.”

Believe Persons Book I Believe Church Memories Holy Devil Destroyed Good Book Crushed Passed Away

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.”

People Country Dream Fall Memories Powerful Liberty One Thing Century Revolution Inspired Myth Oppression Destroyed Rising Shakes Majesty Nineteenth Century Fraternity

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.”

Remember Guy Memories Childhood Destroyed Childhood Memories

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.”

Writing Easy Memories Destroyed Easy To Get Old Memories

Author:Annie Dillard