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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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.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
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.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
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