“ Your memory is a monster; you forget-it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you-and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! ”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Categories: Memory
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. 
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. 
Memory is useful. But if you do not know how to keep it aside, that becomes your biggest bondage 
Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time. 
Past and future only exist in your memory and your imagination. The only thing that you experience is what is right now