Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
If something really gave me immense happiness, I will remember it for the rest of my life in vivid detail. But if something bothered me, or I regretted it deeply, I will move ahead from it and forget.
