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Quote by Douglas Coupland

“Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines.”

Book:Microserfs

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Microserfs

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Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist born on December 30, 1961. His works depict the complexity of modern society with a unique perspective and style, particularly focusing on personal identity, consumer culture, and technological development. His notable works include 'Generation X' and 'Shitty Millennial'. more

“Happy be Thy world The world forgetting by the forgotten world; The failed attempts to remember the need to forget; Naturally, Eventually, Gradually, Usually, Finally ; Thy Allies will accompany you and end this Abruptly. For Thy, it may seem simple; Oh Shameless Crook! Thy have done it before and will do it again and when thy does it -- seems that only the innocence weeps.”

Separation Broken Heart Weeping Forgetting Love Poetry Breaking Up Indignation Forgotten Memories

Author:Ranjani Ramachandran

“What does it remember? Itself, death as memory. An immense memory in which one dies. First to forget. To remember only where one remembers nothing. To forget: to remember everything as though by way of forgetting. There is a profoundly forgotten point from which every memory radiates. Everything is exalted in memory from something which is forgotten, an infinitesimal detail, a minuscule fissure into which it passes in its entirety.”

Memory Forgetting

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

Life Death Memory Forgetting Remembering

Book:The Angel of History

Source: The Angel of History

“I look at people and I don't know them. Yesterday, I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out who the grumpy woman sitting beside me was before I realized it was your mother. [...] I've led a rich life, Henry, but I'm terrified of dying a pauper.”