Siri Hustvedt - Memories Quotes

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The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

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Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit — unconscious and conscious.

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