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“Forgetting you is not easy for me, Death is easier for me than Forgetting you.”

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“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”

Romance Justice History Historical Realistic Governance Exquisite Vibrant Political Intrigue

Book:Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Source: Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.”

Healing Forgetting Moving On And Letting Go

Book:Moth Smoke

Source: Moth Smoke

“Memory is a strange combination of those things we work to remember and the things we can never forget”

Memory Forgetting Remembering

Book:Three Strikes, You're Dead

Source: Three Strikes, You're Dead

“Ricoeur describes forgetting as both an active and a passive act: the individual’s responsibility to keep the event remembered is just as important as the changing political environment that is beyond the individual’s control. Neglect, or an unwillingness to revisit the past, constitutes an active act of forgetting. The responsibility of the individual to give an account (or testimony) of a significant event, and the need to remember and mourn the past, form some of Ricoeur’s ethical concerns in Memory, History, Forgetting.”

Neglect Forgetting Ricoeur

Book:Kazuo Ishiguro and Memory

Source: Kazuo Ishiguro and Memory

“Forgetting is what nature does best. The universe is a huge forgetting machine. It erases information no matter how hard we try to hang onto it. How could it be any different? What if the memory of everything that ever happened still existed? The universe would be clogged with information, so packed with it we couldn’t move. We’d be paralyzed, because every moment we ever lived would still be with us. It would be hell.”

Memories Forgetting

Book:Arkfall

Source: Arkfall

“[M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to multiply. ... So that those who need can find that this person did live, those events really took place, this interpretation is not the only one.”

Past History Memory Remembrance Forgetting

Book:Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Source: Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

“I will forget whom forgotten me, I will mention who mentioning me.”

Forget Forgetting Forgetting Someone Mention

Author:Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Why is it important to forget? Forgetting plays a vital role in our ability to function for a deceptively simple reason. Forgetting allows us to prioritise. Anything irrelevant to our survival will take up wasteful cognitive space if we assign it the same priority as events critical to our survival.”

Humanity Brain Behaviour Forgetting

Book:Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Source: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“There are towns whose names evoke a real horror in you because you have learned to link those names with atrocities, but, for the generation that follows your, those names will mean nothing; forgetting doesn't take long.”

Book:Open City

Source: Open City

“There are towns whose names evoke a real horror in you because you have learned to link those names with atrocities, but, for the generation that follows yours, those names will mean nothing; forgetting doesn't take long.”

Author:Teju Cole