Haruki Murakami
Writer
"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."
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Oblivion
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Jose Saramago
Writer
"But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead."
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything."
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"Kisses honeyed by oblivion."
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"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change."
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"There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it."
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"Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens."
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"There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness."
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"God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion."
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"There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say."
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"Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves."
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"And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?"
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"Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him."
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"Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve."
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"We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation."
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"I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also."
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