When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

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About Helen Hunt Jackson

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name: H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist for improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A...

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I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

Love has a tide!

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O month when they who love must love and wed.

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

—Jessamyn West

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Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

—Elias Canetti

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I didn't forget you. To this day, I have yet to walk through an airport without looking for your face, and every time it snows, I remember what it felt like to kiss you.

—Sharon Sala in Second Chances

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

—Thomas Szasz

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