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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.