The phrase "duty of memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the moral or ethical obligation to remember and honor past events, particularly in contexts related to history, trauma, or collective memory.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is our duty of memory to ensure that the stories of those who suffered are not forgotten."
Alternatives: "obligation to remember" or "responsibility of remembrance."
His frantic repetition evokes death, disappearance and the duty of memory in a losing battle with oblivion.
Hollande said it was an "exceptional day" of unity and there was a duty of memory to all the war's victims "military, civilians, Allies and the German victims of Nazism".
Hollande said it was an "exceptional day" of unity and the duty of memory was to all the war's victims "military, civilians, Allies and the German victims of Nazism".
The police administration is "conscious of the duty of memory that is incumbent upon it," Bernard Boucault, the Paris police prefect, said at the inauguration of the exhibit this month.
But the spirit and the commitment of the tribunal, no matter the ambivalences and reservations it too may contain, suggests that memory is a strange and often wondrous thing: there is, blessedly, such a thing as the duty of memory – and it often imposes a continuity, particularly when the time calls for it, upon the act of remembering.
But it is unlikely that there will be a memoir of more terse power than Paul Steinberg's "Speak You Also," a testimony from within the chamber of evil itself that performs the duty of memory with a special kind of pain and meaning.
What stands out most clearly is Bellow's capacity for friendship, which is closely connected in his mind to the duties of memory.
So is there an ethics of memory, a duty of remembrance?
It's apparent to the reader that he sleeps with other women to escape both the stifling duty of his marriage and the memory of the only woman he ever truly loved.
Similarly, investigation of the logical features of discourse about pleasure or duty or remembering is concerned with the concepts of pleasure or duty or memory.
The cultivation of memory is presented as a national duty.
