The crime of loving is forgetting.

—Maurice Chevalier

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About Maurice Chevalier

Portrait of Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (French: [mɔʁis ʃəvalje]; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known for his signature songs, including "Livin' In The Sunlight", "Valentine", "Louise", "Mimi", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", and for his films, including The Love Parade,...

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An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

—Maurice Chevalier

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

—Maurice Chevalier

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No matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there’s a trigger for every memory.

—Calia Read in Breaking the Wrong

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

—Laurence J. Peter

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To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

—Henning Mankell in When the Snow Fell

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There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.

—John Boyne in Mutiny on the Bounty

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

—B. F. Skinner

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