" We come into life with nothing and gradually we build 

up the vast, rich world of the self: language and knowledge 

and relationships and belongings and experience and 

memory and love. Above all, memory and love. "

from Words fail us: dementia and the arts

by Nicci Gerrard

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/19/dementia-and-the-arts-fiction-films-drama-poetry-painting