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Literary notes about Remembrance (AI summary)

Throughout literary history, the term "remembrance" has been used to evoke both tender nostalgia and poignant grief, acting as a bridge between past experiences and present identity. Authors often employ it to denote the persistence of memory in the face of time—sometimes as a cherished recollection, as when a fleeting compliment endures in one's heart ([1], [2]), and other times as an unrelenting echo of personal torment or historical burden ([3], [4]). The word also plays a significant role in moral and religious discourses, where it reminds readers of duties and the inevitability of judgment ([5], [6]). In lighter or symbolic moments, it can serve as a memento of past affections or lost joys ([7]), while in more reflective narratives it underlines the inescapable interplay between memory and identity ([8], [9]).
  1. “Lady,” she said, “the countenance you have deigned to show me will long dwell in my remembrance.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  2. “What an amiable creature I was!—No wonder you should hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance.”
    — from Emma by Jane Austen
  3. of which the remembrance will torment me for the remainder of my days.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  4. I remembered everything that history had taught me on the subject, and I shuddered at the remembrance of the agonies to be endured.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  5. Ecclesiastes Chapter 11 Exhortation to works of mercy, while we have time, to diligence in good, and to the remembrance of death and judgment.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  7. She would like to have kept those wisps as a keepsake, as a remembrance.
    — from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
  8. His face has been as it were a remembrance and a prophecy for me.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Without all doubt she is dead, and truly to my best remembrance I never saw her; the Lord forgive me!
    — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

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