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Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

“How quickly we forget winter when summer comes, the terrible storm when the dark clouds go, the horrible floods when the rain stops, how quickly we forget the nightmares of darkness when the sun rises! Forget, my friend, forget, but do not forget that you will always be reminded of what you have forgotten!”

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan is a renowned Turkish writer born on May 16, 1965. His works span various literary forms including novels, essays, and poetry, and have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

“Three hundred years, and some part of her is still afraid of forgetting. There have been times, of course, when she wished her memory more fickle, when she would have given anything to welcome madness, and disappear. It is the kinder road, to lose yourself. Like Peter, in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. There, at the end, when Peter sits on the rock, the memory of Wendy Darling sliding from his mind, and it is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does.”

Loneliness Forgetting Remembering

Book:The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I had found a woman whom I had not known, and who from day to day had grown stranger to me, yet closer. Now she seemed to be slipping away from me again, into a realm where all names are forgotten, where there is only darkness and perhaps certain unknown laws of darkness. She rejected that dark realm; she came back, but she no longer belonged to me as I had tried to believe. Perhaps she had never belonged to me; who, after all, belongs to whom, and what is it to belong to someone, to belong to one another? Isn't it a forlorn illusion, a convention? Time and again she turned back, as she called it, for an hour, for the duration of a glance, for a night. And always I felt like a bookkeeper who is not allowed to audit. I could only accept without question whatever this unaccountable, unhappy, damned, and beloved creature chose to be and to tell me. ... Loneliness demands a companion and does not ask who it is. If you don't know that, you may have been alone, but you were never lonely.”

Loneliness Illusion Rejection Companionship Forgetting Closeness Slipping Away Knowing Someone Growing Apart Distancing Self

Book:The Night in Lisbon

Source: The Night in Lisbon

“I don't speak of vengeance, nor of forgiving; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness”

Forgiveness Revenge Moving On Vengeance Forgetting

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Thou canst not teach me to forget.”