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“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“To be able to forget means sanity.” Jack London, The Star Rover
“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Either I forget immediately or I never forget.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“My whole life is about forgetting. It’s my most valuable job skill.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.” A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Wine is a grand thing . . . It makes you forget all the bad.” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting nor remembering death unduly. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and the less we think about it the better.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.” Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard — and in order to forget.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
“We were born to strive and endure—you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“It's funny, what people will do to be remembered.” John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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