What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate -- and immediately forget we have done so.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders