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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
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"When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange."

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Matt Smith Actor
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"History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic."

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Baltasar Gracian Philosopher, Writer
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"When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

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