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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast · 1964

Quotes

“Eaten bread is soon forgotten.”

Winston Churchill · The World Crisis, 1923-1931 · Primary source

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“Just as food eaten without caring for it is turned into loathsome nourishment, so study without a taste for it spoils memory, by retaining nothing which it has taken in.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“Recollection is more richly satisfying than all actuality.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Either/Or, 1843 · Primary source

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