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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance
“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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