An open music box with a ribbon of silver light rising from it on a plum cloth.

Original artwork, not a still

Willa Cather

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker suggests that certain memories are so vivid and complete that they are as real as living experience, and even surpass anything the future may bring. Such moments, once kept, remain a source of richness that new events cannot equal.

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