“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”
Source: Eloisa to Abelard
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“This world of imagination is the world of eternity.”
A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s
St. 5
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.”
Jongkind's quote in an early letter (1840's), to his Dutch friend Eugène Smits; as cited by nl:Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 69
“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.”
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Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941), p. 4
“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
Dolcino to Margaret, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“If I forgot what I have not been, I would forget myself.”
Si me olvidase de lo que no he sido, me olvidaría de mí.
Voces (1943)