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• Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Beauty, Long, Desire

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

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• The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Memories, Men, Needs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.820, e-artnow

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• In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

  Robert Southey

  Age, Youth, Aging

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)

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• The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

  Grover Cleveland

  Communism, Reaching, Should

  "Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850 - 1908". Book by Allan Nevins, 1933.

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• Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

  Gilbert Highet

  Writing, Bud, Pieces

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• An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

  Jean Kerr

  Phones, Numbers, Long

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Thinking, People

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Practice, Religion

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Dream, Car

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• What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

  Francois Mauriac

  Book, Enough, Poor

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• The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

  Norman Mailer

  Wisdom, Politician, Mercy

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

  Lewis Mumford

  Civilization, Eggs, Growth

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

  Thomas Merton

  Memories, Past, True Identity

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

  Julian Barnes

  Artist, Years, Paris

  "A vineyard in Montmartre: just one of the hidden pleasures of Paris" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

  Michael Heseltine

  Mistake, Humble, Enough

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• I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Made

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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Happiness, Flower, Heart

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• The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

  Teacher, Learning, School

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• The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

  Neal Stephenson

  Inspirational, Technology, Race

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Some Remarks”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

  Rumi

  Self, Remember

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

  Alan Watts

  Self, People, Interesting

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Body, Too Much

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• A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

  John Ray

  Memories, Science, Ink

  John Ray (1744). “The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation”, p.278

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• ... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Writing, Blood

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.28, Hachette UK

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