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• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mind, Relief, May

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• Yet if you should forget me for a while
  And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
  For if the darkness and corruption leave
  A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
  Better by far you should forget and smile
  Than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Grieving, Mourning, Darkness

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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

  Anne Sexton

  Memories, Hate, Brain

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sight, Imagination, Vision

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• Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
  While the world's tide is bearing me along;
  Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
  Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Maturity, Forgiving

  Emily Bronte, “Remembrance”

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• Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opiates, Done, Deeds

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• Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Flying, Want

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• True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Self

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• When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Together, Lasts, Contradicting

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Creativity, Self, Transcendence

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• People are machines of forgetfulness

  Henri Barbusse

  People, Machines

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• The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

  Socrates

  Character, Soul, Alphabet

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• the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Self Forgetfulness

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1996). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention”, Harpercollins

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• Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

  Thomas Hardy

  Past, Light, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

  Shannon Hale

  Years, Cry, Lost

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.99, A&C Black

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• As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

  Margot Livesey

  Way, Remember, Concerned

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• Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.

  Mark Dever

  War, Grace, Soul

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• Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Forget, Ends

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001".

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• Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.

  Helen Prejean

  Witty, Pain, Self

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.144, Vintage

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• It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Fall, People, Society

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• I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.

  Neville Goddard

  Who I Am, Feelings, Degrees

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Age

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• In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness.

  Harold Klemp

  Life, Spiritual, Single Mom

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Our World, Symphony, Silence

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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