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Read & copy the quotation
“Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”
- Source
- Remember
- Date
- 1862
Meaning of “Better by far you should forget and smile…”
Love is expressed through releasing the other person from an obligation to grieve, placing their future well-being above continued remembrance.
Where does it come from?
Closing thought of Remember; Rossetti shifts from asking to be remembered toward permitting compassionate forgetting.
