Thought for the Day "The difference between false memories and true ones is ...

[Paul Whybrow]

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

Salvador Dali

 

[Rich.]

I love this quote. In Spanish it goes:

La diferencia entre los recuerdos falsos y los verdaderos es la misma que para las joyas: siempre son los falsos los que parecen más reales, más brillantes.​

And Dalí was nothing if not a trickster, so one might better translate brillante as shiny, for its more childlike quality. And (perhaps stretching a little) reales can also mean royal. These ajustments, along with  parecen as appear, would give us:

it is always the false ones that appear most royal, most shiny​

Which I think, for what it's worth, is more Dalí-esque.