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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"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."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"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."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?"

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"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!"

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Laozi Philosopher
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"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."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"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."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"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."

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