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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

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If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of th...more

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Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, ...more

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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to ima...more

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory,...more

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The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

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But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived...more

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O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth hi...more