Jane Austen Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Birthday: December 16
Death: July 18
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
source: Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc
topic: Memories, Past, Thinking, Mansfield Park, Beyond Control, Past Memories
