
“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
Source: The Calling
To CBŚ corrupt officers.
“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
Source: The Calling
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.”
Source: When You Reach Me
“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.”
Verse IV.2
Tirukkural