“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten”

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

“Remember that there is an abundance of happiness that can be found in the smallest of places.”

“Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; …”

“There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.”

“they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep on remembering mine”

“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.”

“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”