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• The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”. 

  George MacDonald

  Art, Home, Men

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• Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.

  Carl Holmes

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Feelings

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• Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Christian, Mind, Remember

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• Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Self, Remembrance

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• I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Loss, Mind

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• Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Aversion, Wounds

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• At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Self, Might

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Christian, Dresses, Modesty

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• You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.

  Denis Diderot

  Wise, Years, Forever

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

  Roland Barthes

  Survival, Unfaithful, Absence

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• Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Memories, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Love You, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.126, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sweet, Ocean, Glasses

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• Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

  Alice Walker

  Evil, Forgiving, Done

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• Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, War, Convince Us

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• Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Children, Men, Parent

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.269, The Floating Press

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• Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

  Yann Martel

  Men, Age, Able

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.91, Knopf Canada

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• Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Love Is, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Self, Two

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Past, America, Justice

  "Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 109, 1967.

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• This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

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• But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.443, Univ of California Press

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• Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Past, Men

  "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" by Jose Saramago, (p. 47), 1989.

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