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• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Dust, Ties

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• Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

  David Brin

  Past, Self, Civilization

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• I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

  Juliette Binoche

  Flower, Thinking, Order

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• Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

  Robert Englund

  Play, Lines, Nightmare

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

  Albert J. Nock

  Mean, Culture, Great Men

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• First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Firsts, Musician, Looks

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• I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

  Brian Eno

  Life, Past, Mind

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• The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Strength, Memories, Struggle

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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  First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

  George Burns

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humor

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• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Consciousness, Humans

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• The crime of loving is forgetting.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Crime, Loving Deeply

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• When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  World Suffering, Religion, Signs From God

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Life, Fall

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.132, Penguin

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• A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

  Hector Berlioz

  Writing, Ideas, Despair

  Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

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• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  Samuel Butler

  Thinking, Etc, Remember

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Poverty, Honest, Never Forget

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• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Names, People

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter 6, Scene 20), 44 BC.

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• One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Age, Aging, Graves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny Life, Wish, Notes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1201, Ageless Reads

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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Greatness, Men

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