Memory is the thing you forget with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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 narrativises itself.
You never know when you're making a memory.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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