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Isaac Philosopher
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"Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues."

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"I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"There's a thing about cocaine - when I was doing it secretly, it didn't make me very sociable. I forget how others were, but it made me very inner-directed. So being in a sketch and rehearsing and the "hail fellow well met" camaraderie and all that stuff, I couldn't fake that or force that. It was painful."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament."

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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
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"We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch."

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Jarryd James Singer-Songwriter
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"The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately."

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