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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

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"Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people."

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