“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”

“To leave a good memory of oneself, one must earn a place in the memory of others.”

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

“Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.”

“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”

“Time is just memory
Mixed in with Desire.”

“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.”

“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”

“It is necessary to protect oneself from over exaggeration; one must not suppose that there exists, even in the realm of partial memory, an absolutely pure auditory type; real life does not make such schemas… In reality, when one says that a person belongs to the auditory type… one wants to say simply that with regard to that person the auditory memory is preponderant.”