Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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 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.
Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
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