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Forgetfulness Quotes

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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis

We dwell in a community of induced oblivion, a society which necessitates communal obliviousness.
Authors on Forgetfulness Quotes: Sophocles Anne Bronte John Milton Margot Livesey Dietrich Bonhoeffer Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Helps Mason Cooley Henri Barbusse Cesare Lombroso Romare Bearden William Shakespeare Mia Couto Henry David Thoreau Christina Stead Felicia Hemans C. S. Lewis Thomas a Kempis Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Jean de la Bruyere Alexander Pope Katherine Dunn Plutarch Thomas Keating John Climacus Angela Davis Hart Crane Bayazid Bastami
2.
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
Bayazid Bastami

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Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.
John Climacus

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Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
Thomas Keating

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Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
Romare Bearden

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Humility is self-forgetfulness.
C. S. Lewis

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Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
Mason Cooley

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I can remember much forgetfulness.
Hart Crane

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To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.
Mia Couto

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The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
Arthur Helps

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Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Plutarch

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles

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Forget thyself to marble.
John Milton

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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
Christina Stead

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And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
Thomas a Kempis

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God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
Cesare Lombroso

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People are machines of forgetfulness
Henri Barbusse

20.
Give me to drink mandragora.
William Shakespeare

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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
Alexander Pope

23.
life's best balm - Forgetfulness!
Felicia Hemans

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the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
Anne Bronte

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As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.
Margot Livesey

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Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
Jean de la Bruyere

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We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
Katherine Dunn