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• Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Being Yourself, Real, Remembrance

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Lying, Details

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Men, Vanity

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• Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

  Sylvia Plath

  Snow, Cadavers, Landscape

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Justice, Ordinary, Each Day

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

  William Morris

  Wise, Pain, Grief

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.3387, Delphi Classics

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• Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Bored, Faces

  Franz Kafka (1954). “The castle”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Mistake, Years, Endearing

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Forgiveness, Men, Amnesty

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.

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• Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

  Anne Bronte

  Wish, Desire, Esteem

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dream, Sight, Doors

  Richard Brautigan, “Hinged To Forgetfulness Like A Door”

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• The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Roots

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• Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Art, Flower

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• America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Opportunity, Land

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  Sam Rayburn

  Remember, Never Forget, Telling The Truth

  "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn". U.S. News & World Report, (p. 72), October 23, 1961.

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• Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Remembrance, Secret, Redemption

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• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

  Helen Keller

  Vanity, Mind, Vexation

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Passion, Men

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• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

  Sholem Asch

  Book, Sea, Opposites

  Sholem Asch (1939). “The Nazarene”

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• If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Happiness, Mean, Self

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• Give me to drink mandragora.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Drink, Give Me

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 4

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• May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, May, Realizing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

  Plato

  Memories, Character, Discovery

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.545, Catholic Way Publishing

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