Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Memory narrativises itself.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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