It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.
A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.
I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
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