Soren Kierkegaard

For me nothing is more dangerous than recollection. Once I have recalled some life situation it ceases to exist. People say that separation helps to revive love. That is quite true, but it revives it in a purely poetic way. A life in recollection is the most perfect imaginable; memory gives you your fill more abundantly than all of reality and has a security which no reality possesses. A life situation recalled has already passed into eternity and has no more temporal interest.