What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Walter Benjamin
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Few things are more deceptive than memories. - Unknown

  2. If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them... - Cassandra Clare

  3. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind... - Ralph Alfred Habas

  4. We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember. - Ian Bates

  5. The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost... - Paul Auster

More Quotes By Walter Benjamin
  1. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  2. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  3. Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

  4. Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  5. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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