“Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.”

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”

“They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”

“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”

“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”

“This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.”

“God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it”

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing.”

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”