It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
Aldous HuxleyWhat a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
Aldous HuxleyMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
Aldous Huxley