340 Quotes About Forgetting
- Author Milan Kundera
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At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.
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- Author Francesca Lia Block
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I was starting to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place. It was the magic of forgetting.
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- Author San Sai R.A
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How can I move on from yesterday if some people keeps on reminding me my mistakes everyday..
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- Author Miranda Davis
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How long would it take for her sadness to ease? How long must she wait to forget a man who would've been her ideal, were he not who he was? The answer: too long. But wait she must.
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- Author Michael Pollan
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Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life “so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again.” It is the brain’s own drug for coping with the human condition.
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- Author Janusz Leon Wiśniewski
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Nawet nie proszę, abyś mi wybaczyła. Tego, co zrobiłem, nie można wybaczyć. To można tylko zapomnieć.
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- Author Idries Shah
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You have not forgotten to remember;You have remembered to forget.But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
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- Author Darren Pillsbury
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But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.
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- Author Tomoko Yamashita
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If during this time, or some other time we were separated, I wouldn't forget you. I'd recall how many years have passed knowing you.
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