The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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!
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.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
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.
I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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