Memory

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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic

Being in love Memory

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 2.

Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Memory

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

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Memory

Speaker

Hugh

Author

Brian Friel

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Friel, Brian. Translations, dir. Art O'Briain. 23 Sept. 1980,Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, act 3.

Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Memory Judgment Self-criticism Delusion

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1745 1740s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1745.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax, which is of different sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having more or less of purity in one than another, and in some of an intermediate quality... Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses; and that when we wish to remember anything which we have seen, or heard, or thought in our own minds, we hold the wax to the perceptions and thoughts, and in that material receive the impression of them as from the seal of a ring; and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget and do not know.

Socrates

Quoted in Theaetetus, by Plato

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Memory

Speaker

Socrates

Author

Plato

Source

Theaetetus

Medium

Philosophical dialogue Dialogue

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Greek

Time

369 BC 360s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Θεαίτητος [Theaetetus], written by Plato. c. 369 BC.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Theaetetus, written by Plato, translated by John McDowell. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Topic

Legacy Memory

Author

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Source

Remember

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862, I. 1.

Current Citation

Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Groucho Marx

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Memory

Speaker

Groucho Marx

Statement Type

Insult Joke

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Marx, Groucho. "Groucho." People I have Loved, Known, or Admired, written by Leo Rosten. McGraw-Hill, 1970.

I can remember absolutely everything, young man, that's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Citizen Kane

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Topic

Memory

Speaker

Jedediah Leland

Actor

Joseph Cotten

Source

Citizen Kane

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Topic

Memory Self-criticism

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Memory

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Memory

Author

Chuck Palahniuk

Source

Diary: A Novel

Medium

Novel

Genre

Horror Satire

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary. Doubleday, 2003.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Gerald M. Edelman

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Topic

Perception Observation Creation Memory Imagination

Author

Gerald M. Edelman

Source

A Universe of Consciousness

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Edelman, Sam and Giulio Tononi. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. Basic Books, 2000.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic

The past Memory

Speaker

Elizabeth Bennet

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 16.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

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Memory

Speaker

Miss Saeki

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Kafka on the Shore

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murakami, Haruki. 海辺のカフカ [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

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Memory

Speaker

Miss Prism

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. 1895, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, act 2.

Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

The Silence of the Lambs

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Topic

Memory Prison

Speaker

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Actor

Anthony Hopkins

Source

The Silence of the Lambs

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological horror (film) Thriller (film) Psychological horror Thriller

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Silence of the Lambs. Directed by Jonathan Demme, Strong Heart Productions, 1991.

I can't remember to forget you.

Memento

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Topic

Getting over someone Memory

Speaker

Leonard

Actor

Guy Pearce

Source

Memento

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Thriller (film) Thriller

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Summit Entertainment/Team Todd, 2000.

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

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Memory

Author

Joan Didion

Source

Blue Nights

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki

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Hurting others Women Memory

Author

Saki

Source

Reginald on Besetting Sins

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

Current Citation

Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Memory Love

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.