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“If I still had the space, charcoal, and available walls, I could compose a great work about forgetting: a general theory of oblivion.”

Book:A General Theory of Oblivion

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“Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.”

Past History Novel Messages Myth Symbols Code Forgetting Enigma Signs Czech Decode

Book:The Joke

Source: The Joke

“Poetry is like a beef bouillon cube; it's hardly ever needed (or perhaps never needed at all); it sits in its precious wrapper, well out of view, until everyone has forgotten it's there.”

Poetry Forgetting Beef Precious Wrapper Bouillon Wenderoth

Author:Joe Wenderoth

“When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this. In the end your mind gets to welcome that deadening. that's what I believe anyway. Half of our memoryloss is by choice.”

Mind Learning Memory Forgetting Memory Loss

Book:The Chimes

Source: The Chimes

“It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.”

Failure Forgetting Regrets Disappointing Reminding Correction Right Thinking Good Talk Right Vision Bad Talking

Book:Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science

Source: Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science

“Trying to forget someone whom you love, is like trying to remember someone you have never known.”

Love Known Forgetting Remembering

Author:Kambiz Shabankare

“Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates.”

Ignorant Forgetting

Author:Nanamoli Thera

“The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.”

Learning Forgetting Applying

Author:John Gray

“Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I am. Flaws and all. Because I'm good in bed and I can carry heavy things and reach all the high shelves.”

Romance Erotica Lauren Dane

Book:Coming Undone

Source: Coming Undone

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we've forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.”

History Memory Forgetting

Book:Wintering

Source: Wintering

“Tears sting my eyes once more, building up and rolling over my cheeks with the heat of a dying star. Isn’t that what death is? It’s forgetting. It’s letting go. We make peace with the dead to say goodbye.”

Death Peace Memories Letting Go Forgetting

Book:Biome

Source: Biome

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