memento

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A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.

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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films. Colleen Haskell

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento. Susan Minot

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. Steven Soderbergh

Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. Nathan Bedford Forrest

A letter then, breathing of home and affection, is a treasure; it is like a memento from the dead, for absence is as death in all but that its resurrection is in this life. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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