"My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten."
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"Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten."
"Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence."
"You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall."
"The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten."
"It is better a man should be abused than forgotten."
"You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it."
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
"At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death."
"What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are."
"Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion."
"If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable."
"The things we remember best are those better forgotten."
"Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated."
"Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream."
"do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation"
"His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him."
"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
"We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten."
"Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten"