An interesting question...is whether forgetting amounts to the actual loss of the information from memory or whether we just no longer can retrieve the information. Often, retrieval failure is the better interpretation of forgetting. Less useful memories may not be truly lost - they may just become less accessible.
-John R. Anderson, Learning and Memory

In her beautiful book on 'involuntary memories' (A Collection of Moments, 1970), Esther Salaman speaks of the necessity to preserve, or recapture, 'the sacred and precious memories of childhood', and how impoverished, ungrounded, life is without these...We are all 'exiles from our past', she writes, and as such, we need to recapture it.
-Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

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