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I almost never recall my dreams, and my memory for faces could hardly be worse. Is it for the same reason that I have very few memories of childhood? Indeed, I have always imagined that the human memory has limited storage space, and that the art of memory is no less the art of forgetting than that of remembering.
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Weil, A. (1992). Growing Up. In: The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8634-5_1
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