“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it”
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”
“Have you ever done something so horrible and so irreparable that you knew there was nothing you could ever do to fix it?”“No,” I said gently. “Mostly because I’m eight.”
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”—Michel de Montaigne, February 28,1533–September 13, 1592”