“I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)”

— Milan Kundera , The Joke

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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

Source: Deathwish

“I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Nausea (1938)

“To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter VII · Military Maneuvers

“I cannot desire any created love, that is, love which can be felt, enjoyed, or understood. I do not wish love that can pass through the intellect, memory, or will; because pure love passes all these things and transcends them”

Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse

Life and Doctrine

“I was born in Havana and my family left when I was five-and-a-half. I remember the transition and some memories of being in Havana. I tried to analyze this and I think all exiles who have to leave a country you love, develop a profound nostalgia for where you were born but can no longer be there – like an impossible love. You protect those memories and don’t take them for granted. It’s different for someone who grew up and still lives in the same city because they do take their memories for granted. For me, I’m very nostalgic – not only about my time in Havana, but my 30 years in Miami Beach. All those memories are pretty vivid and I guard and cherish them. I also use those recollections in my work.”

Andy García (1956) American actor and director

On how he’s nostalgic about Cuba in “Andy Garcia Interview - Up Close And Personal” https://www.lasplash.com/publish/Celebrity_Talk_102/Andy_Garcia_Interview_-_Up_Close_And_Personal.php in Splash Magazines

“[Magic] can be poorly presented and surrounded by naffness, and often amounts to little more than childish attempts to fool you. I guess it’s largely to escape those associations that I’ve gone the route I have.”

Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist

TV recordings of stage shows, Mind Reader – An Evening of Wonders (2009), Mind Reader – An Evening of Wonders tour brochure

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“During my studies at the E. P. I. T. A., I wrote a Lisp interpreter under Windows 3.1. During six months, I discovered Windows, its stupid memory model, the Microsoft C compiler, and its numerous bugs.”

Benoît Minisini (1973) French computer programmer

Quoted from the Gambas Website, http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html

“The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense—which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Literature (1980)

“I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.”

Witter Bynner (1881–1968) American author

Coins, in The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover, 1919.

“I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)”

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