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“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.”

Littles Light Eye House Strong Memories Tree Shadow Scales Spots Evening Atmosphere Colour Canvas Moscow Stripes Saturated Munich

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.”

Men Doe Dream Life Is Actors Sound Memories Shadow Clouds Echoes Finest Another Man Translators

Author:Fanny Kemble

“Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.”

Time Father Memories Shapes Shadow Good Times Multitudes Our Father

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.”

Thinking Mean Made Eye Earth Remember Father Memories Forget Wonder Worst Dad Eating Shadow Cooks Her Eyes Aunt Lambs Walnuts

Author:Diana Abu-Jaber

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“It is the same for all men. None of us can escape this shadow of the father, even if that shadow fills us with fear, even if it has no name or face. To be worthy of that man, to prove something to that man, to exorcise the memory of that man from every corner of our life--however it affects us, the shadow of that man cannot be denied.”

Ifs Men Faces Father Names Memories Our Lives Prove Shadow Corners Worthy Denied

Book:Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood”

Long Memories Blood Shadow Lays Landscape Grandmother Immense Interiors My Grandmother Long Life Rainy Continental

Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.”

Soul Sometimes Light Universe Given Hours Memories Meditation Conversation Shadow Excited Landscape Native Glimpse Hints Barren Lone Oracles Light And Shadow

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.”

Memories Millions Crime Shadow Murder Committed Empires Sooner Or Later Our Memories Documentation Discreet Fabrication Deportation Lithuanians

Author:Milan Kundera

“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.”

Ifs Trying Moments Reality Night Speak Memories Middle Paper Shadow Exposed Middle Of The Night Darkening

Book:Austerlitz

Source: Austerlitz

“As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by memories. They whisper of fairy tales, poetry, and other lives, as each gesture connects with another and raises yet another from the dead. Shadows flicker on film to an inner melody as I navigate, camera at hand and at the speed of light, through unimaginable worlds - desperately trying to make sense of the joy and suffering before it all disappears.”