"Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are."
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"You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself."
"Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know."
"I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not."
"Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy."
"Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me."
"One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being."
"Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?"
"It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!"
"If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work."
"Forget the economy. Just rewire your mentality. Then you'll create your own economy."
"Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that."
"Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us."
"Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important."
"25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?' 26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.' 27 And the Lord did not ask him again."
"Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you."
"Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic."
"We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it."
"If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip."
"Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm."