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The line suggests that memory can feel true before a person fully understands why. It also says memory can linger even after clear recollection or knowledge has faded. The phrase presents memory as something older and more stubborn than deliberate thought.
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About William Faulkner
American writer
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer, known for his novels and short stories. He lived most of his life in Mississippi and wrote much of his work around the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a version of Lafayette County. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. His fiction is closely associated with the American South, and he is widely regarded as a major figure in 20th-century literature.
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Books by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
2020
Sanctuary
1966
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1996
Absalom, Absalom!
1966
As I Lay Dying
1996