“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”

— Joyce Cary , book The Horse's Mouth

Source: The Horse's Mouth

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Irish writer 1888–1957

Joyce Cary (1888–1957) Irish writer

“I understand that you are claiming it is almost impossible to forgive, but only easier to forget. The truth is that, you can only forgive that which you have forced your mind to forget. We must forget first, then forgiveness will come by itself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

"Personal Conduct" http://books.google.com/books?id=IYOcAQAAQBAJ&q=%22The+stupid+neither+forgive+nor+forget+the+na%C3%AFve+forgive+and+forget+the+wise+forgive+but+do+not+forget%22&pg=PA177#v=onepage, p. 51. http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15151528W/The_Second_Sin
The Second Sin (1973)

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1

“It goes on, terrifyingly repetitive. One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.”

Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes

Part 2, Ch. 24
Source: The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

“every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“It is the privilege of true genius, and certainly of the genius that opens a new road, to make without punishment great mistakes.”

Voltaire Le Siècle de Louis XIV

"Siècle de Louis XIV," ch. 32 (1751), qtd. in Arthur Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation," Criticism of the Kantian philosophy (1818)
Citas
Original: (fr) C'est le privilège du vrai génie, et surtout du génie qui ouvre une carrière, de faire impunément de grandes fautes.

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: CAT'S EYE.

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”

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