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“It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.”
― Memory, History, Forgetting
― Memory, History, Forgetting
“Women may feel empowered by talking about their lives. They recover incidents of creation and strength that might be forgotten in the light of other negative stories, which they have come to believe about themselves.”
― Gendered Experiences of Genocide
― Gendered Experiences of Genocide
“But perhaps a person only has two real residences: the childhood home and the grave.”
― Sidewalks
― Sidewalks
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
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“Searching for a memory indeed attests to one of the major finalities of the act of remember- ing, namely, struggling against forgetting, wresting a few scraps of memory from the “rapacity” of time (Augustine dixit), from “sinking” into oblivion (oubli). It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.”
― Memory, History, Forgetting
― Memory, History, Forgetting
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