“What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history – all that human beings sacrifice and endure, overcome and rejoice over – if we do not remember? What point are the centuries, years, months, hours, minutes, if they slip through our fingers, if we learn nothing?”

“What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history – all that human beings sacrifice and endure, overcome and rejoice over – if we do not remember? What point are the centuries, years, months, hours, minutes, if they slip through our fingers, if we learn nothing?”

— Naomi Ragen