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• All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

  David Berg

  Dream, Disappointment, Dark

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• No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Care, Dies

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• When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.91, Convergent Books

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• At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Suffering, Purpose

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• Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Self, Competition

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books

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• Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Dust, Feet, Poetry

  Thomas De Quincey (1853). “Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers”, p.12, Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

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• You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Vision, Way

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• Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Ugly

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Deception, Too Late, May

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

  William James

  Learning, Men, Sticks

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

  John Vance Cheney

  Wind, Deceiving, Same Love

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• It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Abuse, Should

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.57

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• in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pertinent Questions, Society, Lasts

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• The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Law, Long, Guilty

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• Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Fleeting, Gestures

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• We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

  Rumi

  Spring, Animal, Plant Life

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Race, Tragedy, Divine

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• We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

  Wendell Berry

  Iraq, Vietnam, Resent

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• It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Encounters, Sometimes

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Two, Years

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

  Robert Henri

  Memories, Painting, Good Things

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• Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Kindness, Writing, Heart

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• Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.

  Emily Carr

  Dream, Moving, Simple

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.49, D & M Publishers

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• A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Book, Years

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• Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.

  Marion Milner

  Memories, Thinking, Secret Places

  Marion Milner (2005). “The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis”, p.66, Routledge

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