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If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

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 narrativises itself.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.