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“Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.”

World Feels Looks Soul Self States Memories Roots Profound Casts Melancholy Homeland Forgetfulness Outer Worlds Gaiety Dismayed

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.”

Memories Interesting Struggle Forgetfulness

Author:Adrian Forty

“Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.”

Wisdom Happiness Memories Forgetfulness

Author:Mason Cooley

“No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.”

Hate Memories Brain Fishes Slides Forgetfulness Slim

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.”

Remember Dies Memories Forget Life And Death Forgetfulness

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.”

Political Memories Tyranny Forgetfulness

Book:Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War

Source: Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War

“... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.”

Soul Character Use Remember Memories Written Discovery Forgetfulness Learners

Book:The Plato Collection [47 Books]

Source: The Plato Collection [47 Books]

“[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.”

“The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.”

Writing Mind Character Use Memories Practice Produce Offers Appearance Invention Discouraging Pupils Forgetfulness Reminding True Wisdom Elixir

Author:Socrates