12 Quotes Tagged: recollection

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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)

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Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

I cannot see the features right,
When on the gloom I strive to paint
The face I know; the hues are faint
And mix with hollow masks of night.

Verse LXIX

12 Quotes Tagged: recollection

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