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I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man. -- Francis Capra
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. -- Ariel Dorfman
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. -- Roger Ebert
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. -- Charles M. Blow
Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles. -- Leonid Andreyev
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. -- William Shakespeare
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. -- Robert Breault
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. -- Arundhati Roy
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. -- Ivan KlÃma
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain. -- Sophocles
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. -- Andre Breton
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death. -- Elie Wiesel
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life. -- Leonardo da Vinci

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