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• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

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• A man stays alive as long as he is remembered.
  He is killed only by forgetfulness.

  Richard Basehart

  Men, Long, Alive

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• Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

  R. D. Laing

  Views, Oneness, Progress

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• Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Achievement, Constant

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• I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.  Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.  But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

  Ernst Bacon

  Art, Book, Phases

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

  Giannina Braschi

  Baby, Memories, News

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1983.

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• Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

  Margery Wilson

  Lying, Self, Charm

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• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  William James

  Thinking, Numbers, Space

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• What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

  Joseph Hall

  Thank You, Memories, Silence

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.11

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• Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Party, Character

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• Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Remembers Everything, His Eyes, Want

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Dust, Credit

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• ...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Silly, Mean

  George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

  Kevin Whately

  Exercise, Thinking, Brain

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• Humility is self-forgetfulness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Self, Self Forgetfulness

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• 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.

  Samuel Butler

  Memories, Life And Death, Remember

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.83, The Floating Press

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• Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

  Ernest Renan

  Errors, Historical, Essentials

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• And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

  e. e. cummings

  Beauty, Spring, Men

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• There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

  Charles Simmons

  Forgiveness, Doe, Noble

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• Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

  Mia Couto

  Country, Made, Officials

  "Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him". Interview with Sarah Hurd and Suzette Grillot, kgou.org. November 14, 2014.

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• Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

  Muriel Barbery

  Delight, Movement, Pleasure

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• Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

  Christina Stead

  Self, Charm, Cunning

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Ambition, Fighting, Suffering

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Determination, Past

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