Memory
His name was given to a street in Marcoussis (the one where he used to live).
A mountain of New Zealand, in the Southern Alps on South Island also bears his name: Malte Brun (culminating, according to sources', between 3,176 m and 3,199 m). According to the name-giver, Sir Julius von Haast, (p450-452 in his autobiography) this was intended to honour the son.
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Famous quotes containing the word memory:
“Ah! you can die, the world can collapse, I have lost the one I love. I must now live in this terrible solitude where memory is torture.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. “I’ll tell you what, sir,” he said; “the talent of this child is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sir—seen—to be ever so faintly appreciated.”... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same age—not perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“But what do you keep of me?
The memory of my bones flying
up into your hands.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)