„Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.“

— Jodi Picoult

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„How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.“
— Henry Rollins
„It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.“
— Haruki Murakami