Antithesis
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”
Source: The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy 122
Indian novelist, essayist 1961Related quotes
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.
Philippica IX, 5.
Source: Philippicae – Philippics (44 BC)
“But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”
Source: Secrets of Eden