“One forgets
that one is one.
I must try
to
remember this.”

“I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.”

“It was just one of those days for him to forget and me to remember.”

“The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.”

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”

“I never forgot that schooling had irretrievably changed my family’s life. That knowledge, however, did not weaken ambition. Instead, it strengthened resolve. Those times I remembered the loss of my past with regret, I quickly reminded myself of all the things my teachers could give me. (They could make me an educated man.) I tightened my grip on pencil and books. I evaded nostalgia. Tried hard to forget. But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers. I remembered too well that education had changed my family’s life. I would not have become a scholarship boy had I not so often remembered.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“One must never forget to look at the aim of a matter.”

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.”