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“Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.”
― The Joke
― The Joke
“There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.”
― Pushing the Limits
― Pushing the Limits
“The little things you forget, kill me.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“I loved her like elephants like remembering stuff. Those bastards just won’t let me forget and move on.”
― Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
― Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
“She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.”
― Greylands
― Greylands
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