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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting. — Zhuangzi

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening. — Floyd Skloot

But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting. — Julian Barnes

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
memory shrinks without forgetting — Fady Joudah

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting — Milan Kundera

To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity? — Stefan Merrill Block

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting; — J. Jack Halberstam

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable. — Steve Toltz

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being. — Russell Hoban

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. — Marc Auge

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever. — Shannon L. Alder

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember. — Vera Nazarian

Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived. — Janet Turpin Myers

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. — Ivan Klima

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. — Richard Paul Evans

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. — Gordon Bell

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes. — Arundhati Roy

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten. — Johnathan Jena

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. — Marcel Proust

Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself. — Charles Dickens

But I feel as if I have said everything of importance that I need to say, I feel as if I'm losing my memory and forgetting who I am. — Paulo Coelho

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting — Lauren Beukes

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory. — Caryl Phillips

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan. — Erna Paris

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. — Michael Ignatieff

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life. — Abigail Thomas

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten? — Joyce Rachelle

I've a grand memory for forgetting, — Robert Louis Stevenson

Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan

Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory. — Jesse Ball

I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory. — Calia Read

The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered. — T.K. Kiser

A life is bookended by forgetting, as though memory forms the tunnel that leads into and out of a human body. — Sarah Hepola

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. — John Boyne

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it. — Jonathan Coe

What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them.
I never die. — Kaine Andrews

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible. — Thomas De Quincey

Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life. — Paul Ricoeur

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be. — Donna Lynn Hope

No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens. — Marty Rubin

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human. — Nenia Campbell

That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten. — Asa Larsson

Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves — Dathan Auerbach

Th tree sheds a memory with every leaf. — Marty Rubin

Humans make art to remember and be remembered," said Caius. "Art is their weapon against forgetting. — Melissa Grey

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting. — Cesar Aira