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Remembrance quotes

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“All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Either I forget immediately or I never forget.” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Think how you love me . . . I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“During the 60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.” Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield” - 1850

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