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is, in fact, seeing something for the very first time, for things are revealed through the memories we have of them.

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time. Cesare Pavese

is an ethical act and has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together. And yet too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.

Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that remembering is an ethical act is deep in our natures as humans, who know we are going to die, and who mourn those who in the normal course of things die before us grandparents, parents, teachers, and older friends. Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together. But history gives contradictory signals about the value of remembering in the much longer span of a collective history. There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited. If the goal is having some space in which to live one's own life, then it is desirable that the account of specific injustices dissolve into a more general understanding that human beings everywhere do terrible things to one another. * * * P' Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

The purpose of life is to remember. Henry Miller

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. Charles Baudelaire

is a duty. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel

Remembering is for those who have forgotten. — Chinese proverb

Remembering is moving eggshells around with hammers; poetry is just an attempt to use a more elegant hammer.

To remember is to take the body time-traveling. — Deepak Chopra

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