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Tag Name "Forgetfulness" (97)

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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
Baal Shem Tov
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Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
Mark Dever
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Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gainIn some wise may come ending to my painIt may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
William Morris
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death remembrance of it is rebirth.
Ramana Maharshi
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Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
Ernest Renan
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
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Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
Ivo Andric
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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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Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
Bayazid Bastami
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.
Etienne de La Boetie
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I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.
Mary Antin
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There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought
Franz Kafka
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A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.
Giannina Braschi
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
Adrienne Monnier
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
Helen Prejean
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There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.
Alice von Hildebrand
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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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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
Alice Walker
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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills
Homer
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
Arthur Helps
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