George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
Louis XIV
King
"Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?"
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers."
Rosa Luxemburg
Political Theorist, Activist
"We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn."
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"A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future."
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"Write what should not be forgotten."
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"If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are."
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"Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten."
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"I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window."
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"All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?"
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"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."
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"Future is everything that past has forgotten."
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"The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere."
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"In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill."
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"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
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"I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me."
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"All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes."
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"We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns."
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"Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you."
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"Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?"
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"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."
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"No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it."
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"Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."
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"I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me."
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