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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

This applies to so many things ... people don't remember what happened, or what's true. They remember how they felt! [1]

And it makes from a psychological perspective - emotions are basically an evolutionary shortcut for remembering. You can compress a 5- or 10-year experience into an imprecise feeling

[1] For anybody who thinks they are rational or objective, try keeping a journal for a few decades, and then reading it. Your memory is very selective!