“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”
“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?”
“I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”
“The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.”
“All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.”
“The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.”