The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to stat...
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The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to b...
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Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it c...
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He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient towar...
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We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to...
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I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by ...
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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of...
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At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private l...
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She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with wall...
