“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.”
“What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?”
“Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”
“Who are we without our memories?”
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.”
“To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.”