Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.

Naguib Mahfouz
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  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 Naguib Mahfouz
  1. I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.

  2. Oh...why has time changed us?

  3. Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.

  4. I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

  5. Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

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