When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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