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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

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One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory,...more

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The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.