“Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
“Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”
— Denis Diderot, book Rameau's Nephew
Rameau's Nephew (1762)
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