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“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.”

Men Long Has Beens Artist Individual Accounts Forgotten Individualism Revolt

Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.”

Culture Individual Nations Forget Consciousness History Forgotten Denial Phenomenon

Author:Joyce Carol Oates