Quotes About Memory

abía aprendido sin esfuerzo el inglés, el francés, el portugués, el latín. Sospecho, sin embargo, que no era muy capaz de pensar. Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. En el abarrotado mundo de Funes no había sino detalles, casi inmediatos.

Había aprendido sin esfuerzo el inglés, el francés, el portugués, el latín. Sospecho, sin embargo, que no era muy capaz de pensar. Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. En el abarrotado mundo de Funes no había sino detalles, casi inmediatos

Yaln?zl?k mükemmel, hatta biraz sald?rgand? ve Dahlmann yaln?zca güneye deÄŸil geçmiÅŸe yol ald???n? düÅŸünebilirdi.

Pensar é esquecer diferenças, é generalizar, abstrair.

When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain.

El presente está solo. La memoria Erige el tiempo. Sucesión y engaño Es la rutina del reloj. El año No es menos vano que la vana historia. (The present is singular. It is memory that sets up time. Both succession and error come with the routine of the clock. A year is no less vanity than is history.)

Timpul nu reface ceea ce pierdem, veÈ™nicia p?streaz? totul pentru slava ei sau pentru a-l încredinÈ›a focului mistuitor.

Como en los sueños, detrás del rostro que nos mira no hay nadie. Anverso sin reverso, moneda de una sola cara, las cosas. Esas miserias son los bienes que el precipitado tiempo nos deja. Somos nuestra memoria, somos ese quimérico museo de formas inconstantes, ese montón de espejos rotos.

Kungs, mana atmi?a ir k? notekgr?vis.

There is a line by Verlaine that I will not remember again. There is a street nearby that is off limits to my feet. There is a mirror that has seen me for the last time. There is a door I have closed until the end of the world. Among the books in my library (I'm looking at them now) are some I will never open. This summer I will be fifty years old. Death is using me up, relentlessly.

That I might be allowed to dream the other Whose fertile memory will be a part Of all the days of man, I humbly pray; My god, my dreamer, keep on dreaming me

Siamo fatti per l'arte, siamo fatti per la memoria, per la poesia o forse per l'oblio. Ma qualcosa resta e questo qualcosa è la storia o la poesia, che non sono essenzialmente diverse.

Cuando se acerca el fin, ya no quedan imágenes del recuerdo; sólo quedan palabras. No es extraño que el tiempo haya confundido las que alguna vez me representaron con las que fueron símbolos de la suerte de quien me acompañó tantos siglos. Yo he sido Homero; en breve seré Nadie, como Ulises; en breve seré todos: estaré muerto.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time: it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory.

Things become duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death.

each time I cross one of the streets in South Buenos Aires, I think of you, Helen;

El olvido bien puede ser una forma profunda de la memoria.

Esos recuerdos no eran simples; cada imagen visual estaba ligada a sensaciones musculares, térmicas, etcétera.

Oscuramente creyó intuir que el pasado es la substancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida

Was it you that killed me, or did I kill you? Abel answered. I don't remember anymore; here we are, together, like before. Now I know that you have truly forgiven me, Cain said, because forgetting is forgiving. I, too, will try to forget.

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind

One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.

you whites are so great that you disdain to remember your enemies.