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Forgetting Quotes by Milan Kundera
- There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I…
- A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
- The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
More Forgetting Quotes
- You never know what will be your future. So stop worrying about future. Enjoy every bit of your life forgetting about what… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping… — Charles Baudelaire
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
- If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think… — Amy Carmichael
- Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests.… — Marie Curie
- Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every… — George W. Bush
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its… — William Wordsworth
- Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. — Natalie Goldberg