Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy etc. and the less we think about it the better.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting at the proper moment what we know.

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.