"As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway."
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"For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He refused to travel to Spain, he left UNESCO because UNESCO accepted Franco's Spain and allowed it a discourse."
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"Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses."
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"The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten."
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"To be forgotten, is to die a little."
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"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
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"Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten."
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"We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings."
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"Sometimes things are better off forgotten."
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"The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten."
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"Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often."
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"Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten."
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"We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it."
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"Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend."
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"Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them."
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"All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it."
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"She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how."
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"Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods."
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"The king is gone but he's not forgotten"
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"Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten."
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