“A train has a poor memory; it soon puts all behind it.”
“Shame has poor memory.”
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.”
“Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.”
“The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.”
“He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.”