Memory brings modesty and reassurance. It is necessary to culture, to an understanding of permanence in a changing world, to a possible persistence of the past in the present, a past whose influence lives on. The demands of memory are heavy. Rilke, seeing the Belvedere Torso: «You must change your life.» Times which remember are creative; times which forget fall into excess.
Friedrich Ohly. The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture. Linda Archibald (trad.) Cambridge University Press (1992)
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