"Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens."
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"I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time."
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"I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again."
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"The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself."
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"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."
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"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."
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"Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live."
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"Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?"
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"Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)"
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"No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor."
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"Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt"
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"My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget."
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"Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them."
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"The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew."
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"Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday."
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"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."
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"Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book."
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"Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."
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"I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little."
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"I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon."
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