"…is the tendency for adults over forty to have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood."

Louis Cheslaw

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Somehow the despondency thus treated becomes pregnant with an access to new vitality. The organism needs to lie dormant whilst its latent energies are gathering strength for activity on a fresh plane. It is important, moreover, to observe that, so long as there is growth, the fresh plane is likewise a higher plane.

Robert Ranulph Marett

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The thing that astonishes me is that the same images, the same landscapes, return each night with such fidelity. They must exist somewhere.

Marguerite Yourcenar — Memoirs of Hadrian

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