“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which…”

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from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation one that hits home

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“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which

repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.”

Julio Cortazar, Agentinian novelist

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