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A good memory, whether natural or acquired, belongs to quick and vivid associability and revivability rather than to mere inherent and perpetual physiological record making.

From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)

By "emotional memory" is meant the spontaneous or voluntary revivability of the image, olfactory or other.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock