Carl Sagan Quotes, Photography Quotes, Memories Quotes

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

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I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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The memory of a good deed lives.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

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In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Memories Quotes , Independent Quotes

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Memories Quotes

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Memories Quotes , Light Quotes

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

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