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But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
It is good for everyone to know how to forget.
I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.
Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.
Life is so short. Forgetting is so long
What the mind forgets
The scars keep remembering
Remember to forget yourself
Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
That the quickest relief will come in forgetting.
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
What you cant forget... God cant remember!
Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.
But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates.
I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
Forgetfulness can sometimes bring freedom of a sort
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
I wish we could keep on forgetting to remember ourselves.
The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice.
Just because I don't talk about it, doesn't mean I forget.
To think is to forget.
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Forgetting takes practice ... You have to work at it.
You know ... they say an elephant never forgets.
What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.
Love is so short; forgetting is so long
Why do I not forget?
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
It's incredibly frustrating to forget. It must be an entirely other thing to be the forgotten
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
It's nice to be able to forget.
Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.
Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it
Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Forgetting hurts the heart, but forgiving rejuvenates it.
A talent for forgetting is necessary to maintain civility.
Were it not better to forget
Than but remember and regret
The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!
The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part.
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.
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There's no greater slur of memory than to be forgotten.
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding.
Actually, it's not so much that I've forgotten. It's more like I've stopped keeping track.
The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
There is much I am happy to forget
The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
There's a difference between remembering and thinking,
Never stop. Never forget.
It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
Forget not
Regret not
Live
Love is short, but forgetting is long.
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.
When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I'd forgotten until I remember them.
I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.
Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on.
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
Holding on to some part of your past even if it means also holding on to the pain of never again having it. That pain is less horrible than the pain of forgetting.
Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
But people forget.
A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
But if there's one sure way not to forget something it's to say Forget That.
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.
I reckoned some things you do best to remember. But sometimes it's best to forget.
Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.
The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten.
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.