“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead
“If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again
“Recovering from the death of your mother is not about forgetting, it's about feeling entitled to remember.
“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years
“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes