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• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Human Beings

• When I got into the end zone, I was so overcome with joy my mind went blank. I forgot everything my boys had showed me and I had to break down and celebrate with my teammates - the guys who helped me get there.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Joy
  • Celebrate
  • Teammates

• Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Emergency

• When the spirit of praise had been poured into a man he forgot what he was; he was like a cheap ugly glass made beautiful by the golden wine which filled it. Empty, he knew his ugliness. In prayer, for those as undisciplined and inexperienced as himself, there were times when one scarcely seemed the same person for five minutes together. He took grip on himself and knelt upright, clinging to his belief that one was not the same being; one was the self that one was now in all the disturbance and agitation of weakness, and the self that one would be when the compass needle had once and for all steadied to the north. His hands gripping the sides of the stall, he pronounced in words his belief that even for such as he, if he could endure to the end, eventual perfections was not only possible but certain through the grace of God, his conviction that despair was sin. The prayer of words was all he had now. The discipline of words must hold him up until the desert was crossed and the Seraph could sing again.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Prayer
  • Belief
  • Wine

• But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Different
  • Character
  • Skin

• I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

  

  Amanda Stott
  • Song
  • Stage
  • Forgot

• I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Christian
  • Prayer
  • Forgot

• I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng

  

  Ernest Dowson
  • Wind
  • Roses
  • Forgot

• I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Speak
  • German
  • Greek

• You guys probably forgot how he played those first 12 games.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Games
  • Played
  • Forgot

• There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Learned
  • Pool
  • Climb

• But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dog
  • Kindness
  • Betrayed

• This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Forgive
  • Forgot

• Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Sins
  • Forgiven
  • Forgot

• When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Hell
  • Eternity
  • Circles

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