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“There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.”
“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important mem...”
“We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.”
“It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire. Bats are flooding out from the hundreds of caves that perforate these mountainsides. I watch...”
“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But ...”
“There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.”
“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
“We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part of the human experience and a natural function of the human b...”
“Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge ...”
“If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...”
“We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.”
“My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”
“I was starting to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place. It...”
“How long would it take for her sadness to ease? How long must she wait to forget a man who would've been her ideal, were he not who he was? The answer: too long. But wait she must.”
“Thats how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a c...”
“Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You cant really know which ones youll survive if you dont stay on the bat...”
“Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.”
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories that hover on the border. There are all sorts of phantasmagoria that inhabit...”
“While he spends all of his time trying to remember, I spend all of my time trying to forget.I dont want to remember how it feels to love him.I want to forget everything in this world that reminds m...”
