
„Memory is your image of perfection.“
— Barbara Kruger American artist 1945
Love For Sale – The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia, 17th October – 24th November 1996
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— Barbara Kruger American artist 1945
Love For Sale – The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia, 17th October – 24th November 1996
— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849
Murmured by Chopin on his death-bed.
Source: The opera reader, Biancolli, 1953, p. 271
— Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980
The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, Page 634.
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
The Book of Delusions (1936)
— Emil M. Cioran, book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
— Joseph Brodsky Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1940 - 1996
— James Rosenquist American artist 1933 - 2017
Quoted in Brian Sherwin, "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist," http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/04/art-space-talk-james-rosenquist.html myartspace.com (2008-04-04)
— Klaus Mann German writer 1906 - 1949
Source: The Turning Point
— Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto
— Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
Georges Duhamel in THE HEART'S DOMAIN (1919). As it was composed in French, the wording in English may vary in translation. Theodore Geisel / Dr. Seuss was born in 1904, and would have been about 15 years old at the time that it was published. The full text can be found at the link below: We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.
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— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
— Tad Williams novelist 1957
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
— Tom Stoppard British playwright 1937
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
— Jaron Lanier American computer scientist, musician, and author 1960
"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
— George Eliot, book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch