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Man is a messenger who forgot the message. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten. ↗

— James Hillman

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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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