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• Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Roles, Favourite

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

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• Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

  John Muir

  Blessed, Men, Tree

  John Muir (1988). “Northwest Passages - From the Pen of John Muir: In California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska”

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• Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, Fighting, Victory

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Wind, Long, People

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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• The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mother, Children, Father

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Divorce, Cities

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• I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten.

  Dave Matthews

  Dog, May, Way

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• The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Blood, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.

  Meher Baba

  Ocean, Exercise, Men

  Meher Baba (1969). “The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose”

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• We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.

  Peter Medawar

  Lying, Sea, Islands

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• The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Anchors, Humanity, Links

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

  Antonin Artaud

  Magic, Trying, Essentials

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.111, Grove Press

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• We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Children, Loneliness

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• Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Beautiful, Grateful, Happiness And Love

  "Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis : A Life". Book by Donald Spoto, 2000.

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• The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the individuality of the national character. There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten altogether in the means.

  James F. Cooper

  Character, Mean, Rights

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Spirit, Truth Is, Drawbacks

  Henry Parry Liddon (1979). “The Russian journal--II: a record kept by Henry Parry Liddon of a tour taken with C. L. Dodgson in the summer of 1867”, Lewis Carroll Society of North

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• The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.

  Edward Said

  Thinking, Issues, Embarrassing Questions

  "Representation of the Intellectual". Book by Edward Said, 1994.

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• Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Forgiven

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• Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

  Greg Bear

  Blood, Forever, Flesh

  Greg Bear (2014). “Blood Music”, p.256, Open Road Media

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• We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Art, Silence, Emotion

  Cine Blitz, 2004.

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• For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Let It Go, Trying

  "Song: This Is Not A Test (Volume One)". March 18, 2008.

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• Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Principles, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.144, Prabhat Prakashan

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• One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Design, Sometimes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, Want, Isolation

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• Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

  Idi Amin

  Real, Men, Uganda

  Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.

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