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“...it is no great task to remember people--the challenge is in forgetting them and allowing one's self to -go on-. [Édouard Manet]”

Book:The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

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“Per liquidare i popoli (..) si comincia col privarli della memoria. Si distruggono i loro libri, la loro cultura, la loro storia. E qualcun altro scrive loro altri libri, li fornisce di un'altra cultura, inventa per loro un'altra Storia. Dopo di che il popolo comincia lentamente a dimenticare quello che è e quello che è stato. E il mondo attorno a lui lo dimentica ancora più in fretta”

Forgetting Ricordo Oblio Dimenticare

Book:The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

Love

Book:We'll Always Have Summer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“The power shall always belong to those who give their lives to the city.”

Romance Fantasy Adult Crescent City Bryce Quinlan Hunt Athalar

Book:House of Earth and Blood

Source: House of Earth and Blood

“A theory on why we stop remembering: there is a part of our story that we do not know how to tell to ourselves and we will away its existence for so long that finally our brain agrees to a trade: I will let you forget this, but you will never feel whole.”

Memory Forgetting Remembering

Book:Find Me

Source: Find Me

“It was strange to wonder what she had really forgotten.”

Past Wonder Memory Forgetting

Book:Lila

Source: Lila

“Vivid are memories We most wish to forget”

Memories Memory Forgetting Memory Quote Past Memories Vivid Thoughts

Author:Nanette L. Avery

“Store your dreams in your memory’s travel bag, for one day, they will be needed in the course of your life’s journey.”

One Day Forgetting Remembering Lucid Dreaming Journey In Life Lucid Dreams Store Bag

Book:The Oneironaut’s Diary

Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Actually horrible that feeling no? This constantly clinging onto old memories and having a hard time moving on. Especially if one is living this memory in that very second, yet can't enjoy it because he is sad about the fact that this very moment will become a distant memory at some time in the future. This fear of forgetting, of leaving memories behind…”

Memories Forgetting Leaving Behind

Book:Peruvian Days

Source: Peruvian Days

“if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse, When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse; But let your love even with my life decay; Lest the wise world should look into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone.”

Love Death Memory Forgetting Sonnets

Author:William Shakespeare

“How not to think of loss, how it takes hold and grows: like lacuna snails, slow and deliberate, on a reed? Why is everything I see the past I've tried to forget?”

Past Poetry Growth Loss Grief Poem Forgetting Slowness

Book:Monument: Poems New and Selected

Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected

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