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“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.”

Men Humans Facts Certain Force Term Memories Virtue Mines Type Reader Normal Messages Clothes Luck Curiosity Prophet Distress Distrust Good Memories Detest Metaphorical Seers Maelstrom

Author:Primo Levi

“What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.”

Shows Spiritual Memories Known Millions Growing Mines Depth Now And Then Recollection

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.”

Littles Use Age Faces Night Left Memories Blood Mines Ears Winter Snow Dull Lamps Deaf Consuming Fading Sap Deaf Ears

Book:The Comedy of Errors

Source: The Comedy of Errors

“I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.”

Hard Wanted Jobs Three Process Memories Mines Cherish Three Things Cherish The Memories

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”

Ifs Doe Self Memories Chance Mines Judgment Tools Difficulty Presses Judgement Confused Encounters Lacking Embarrassed Distrust Stunned Chance Encounters

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.”

Way Trying Sometimes Eye Memories Situation Practice Mines Painting Cathartic

Author:Jose Parla

“That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.”

Home Courses Memories Our Lives Seeing Mines Tvs My Friends Endure Myth Screens Bliss Not Happy Dissonance

Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

“It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.”

Sometimes Memories Information Mines Personality Refuse Volunteer

Book:The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of years that mine has. I do not believe however that I have ever made a bad record and I have certainly never made a record to which I didn't give my complete commitment.”

Giving Years Believe Made Artist Song Wish Memories Numbers Careers Records Mines Proud Couple Commitment Red Track Buttons Retrospect Fond Memories

Author:Greg Lake

“I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.”

People Thinking Way Writing Looks Matter Memories Subjects Mines Window Wake Up Ice Sunset Waking Flirting Subject Matter Malls Deer

Author:Matthea Harvey