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Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.


H. Rider Haggard


#death #forget #forgetting #immortality #life

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless. I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be. And so I light out for the unknown regions.


M.T. Anderson


#life #mind #experience

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.


Sarah Winman


#life #memory #life

When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story -- And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday, And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday -- When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed, Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoon Looking off down the long street To nowhere, Hugged by my plain old wrapper of no-expectation And nothing-I-have-to-do and I’m-happy-why? And if-Monday-never-had-to-come— When you have forgotten that, I say, And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell, And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang; And how we finally went in to Sunday dinner, That is to say, went across the front room floor to the ink-spotted table in the southwest corner To Sunday dinner, which was always chicken and noodles Or chicken and rice And salad and rye bread and tea And chocolate chip cookies -- I say, when you have forgotten that, When you have forgotten my little presentiment That the war would be over before they got to you; And how we finally undressed and whipped out the light and flowed into bed, And lay loose-limbed for a moment in the week-end Bright bedclothes, Then gently folded into each other— When you have, I say, forgotten all that, Then you may tell, Then I may believe You have forgotten me well.


Gwendolyn Brooks


#love #love

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.


Albert J. Nock


#culture #forgetting #great #learning #many

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.


Albert J. Nock


#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.


Albert J. Nock


#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.


Laurence J. Peter


#art #fine #fine art #forgetting #hear

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.


Alexander Pope


#forgetting #forgot #happy #how #lot

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.


Alexander Pope


#forgot #world






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