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The past is always present, and the future is still to come.
The way we hear sounds can change our emotions and memories.
Nothing is ever truly forgotten, and nothing is ever truly lost.

From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The walls held memories of lives lived and lost.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.

From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

From The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

The dead are not dead; they are our memories.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind.
I have not only a past, but a future, and I can see it as well as I can see the present.
Scent has the power to transport us to another place and time.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
The brain is not a computer; it is a structure that learns and remembers.

From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins

When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The past is not a fixed entity.

From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

History is not just what happened; it is what we remember.
Every piece of art tells a story that deserves to be remembered.

From The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Trees have their own memory.
I feel like I have been living in the past.

From The Stranger by Albert Camus

Soundscapes shape our memories and influence our perceptions of places.
Old trees are like libraries; they hold memories of the past.
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The past is something that you can never grasp.
You can’t make the same mistake twice unless you remember it.

From Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

The brain is like a record player; it can only play back what has been recorded.

From Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Our memories are not records but rather creative reconstructions.
Every breath is a reminder of the past.

From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

A great perfume is one that evokes a memory.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

The brain is a living museum of our experiences.
The past is not a fixed piece of history but a fluid construct.

From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Ownership is a set of rules that governs how a Rust program manages memory.
We are not only our memories, we are also the stories we tell ourselves.