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• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

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• A man stays alive as long as he is remembered.
  He is killed only by forgetfulness.

  Richard Basehart

  Men, Long, Alive

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• Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

  R. D. Laing

  Views, Oneness, Progress

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• Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Achievement, Constant

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• I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.  Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.  But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

  Ernst Bacon

  Art, Book, Phases

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

  Margery Wilson

  Lying, Self, Charm

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• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  William James

  Thinking, Numbers, Space

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• What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

  Joseph Hall

  Thank You, Memories, Silence

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.11

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• Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Party, Character

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• A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

  Giannina Braschi

  Baby, Memories, News

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1983.

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• Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Remembers Everything, His Eyes, Want

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Dust, Credit

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• ...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Silly, Mean

  George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Love You, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.126, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

  Kevin Whately

  Exercise, Thinking, Brain

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• This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

  Roland Barthes

  Survival, Unfaithful, Absence

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• Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

  Mia Couto

  Country, Made, Officials

  "Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him". Interview with Sarah Hurd and Suzette Grillot, kgou.org. November 14, 2014.

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• Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Love Is, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.

  Denis Diderot

  Wise, Years, Forever

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• Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

  Yann Martel

  Men, Age, Able

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.91, Knopf Canada

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Ambition, Fighting, Suffering

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• There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

  Charles Simmons

  Forgiveness, Doe, Noble

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• Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Self, Remembrance

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