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

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

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

As we drew nearer the green shore the bearded man told me of that land, the Land of Zar, where dwell...

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Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it se...

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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himsel...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you ma...

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Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived...

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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

The world forgetting by the world forgot.