The Commonplace Book

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

"There are memories that time does not erase."

"Memory believes before knowing remembers."

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

"Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Humans are the only animals that can deliberately remember past events and imagine future ones."

"What is memory but the essence of the soul?"

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."