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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
