“If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.”
Charles Stross book Glasshouse
Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 13, “Climb” (p. 224)
“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”
— James Stephens, book Irish Fairy Tales
Source: Irish Fairy Tales
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