“Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with.”

— François-René de Chateaubriand , book Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

Book II: Ch. 1:The School at Dol – Mathematics and Languages – The nature of my memory
Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1848 – 1850)

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French writer, politician, diplomat and historian 1768–1848

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