What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.

Lo que se olvida es como si nunca hubiera sucedido

For all you know, no one even remembers what you did by now." "No one remembers anything, in the end.

Except for the memories of his daughter and his son it was already as though he had never existed.

ما يُنسى يبدو كأنّه لم يحدُث قط .

Memory never captures the essence, the present intensity, the concrete reality of an experience. It is, as it were, the corpse of an experience, from which the life has vanished.

Where history means nothing. Lessons are forgotten. Memories – of humanity, of all that is humane – are lost.

You can’t remember what you never forgot.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

Gone.
Vanished.
Nothing left.
Nothing said.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

[M]ost of what happens actually is forgotten.