A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyster
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander Pope
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
Marcel Proust
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
Persian Proverb
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
Basile
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A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
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Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
Nietzsche
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