A sleep and a forgetting

" I have noticed that you sometimes have a feeling as if what you
were doing or saying or seeing had all happened before, just
as it is now? as if you'd known themin some previous existence-.

He smilingly suggested: For something is, or something seems,
like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Ah I don't believe it, the girl said. They are too real for that.
If there was a life before this- do you believe there was?
They may be things that happened there.

Lanfear evaded her. They could be premonitions,
prophecies, of a future life, as easily as fragmentary
records of a past life."



" Remembering for the most part I should say it
was painful. Life is tolerable enough as it passes,
but when it is past, what remains seems mostly to
hurt and humiliate. I don't why we should remember
so insistently the foolish things and wrong we do and
not recall the times when we acted, without an effort,
wisely and rightly. I don't mean that we can't
recall those times. we can and do, to console and
encourage ourselves, but they don't recur, without
our willing, as the others do."