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“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.”

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Author:Amber Dermont

“Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.”

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Author:Charles Wagner

“Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.”

Doe Memories Forget Monsters Forget It Our Memories

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.”

Memories Forget Forget It

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

Thinking Memories Forget Monsters Recalls Forget It Files Owen Meany

Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany