“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”
Source: The Forbidden Game
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“They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.”
and variations
Recognized since the 19th century as a borrowing, possibly used by Talleyrand, from a 1796 letter to Mallet du Pan by French naval officer Charles Louis Etienne, Chevalier de Panat: Personne n'est corrigé; personne n'a su ni rien oublier ni rien apprendre. "Nobody has been corrected; no one has known to forget, nor yet to learn anything."
Sources: Craufurd Tate Ramage Ll.D.Beautiful thoughts from French and Italian authors, E. Howell (1866)
Misattributed
“Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.”
Interphase: Thought Universe (p. 247; closing lines)
Blood Music (1985)
“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
Rolls-Royce, p. 19
I Know You Got Soul (2004)
"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)
Context: The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother.
You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb and lay in the sun’s eye on the tideline. It was long and long ago; we have grown proud since then and you have grown bitter; life retains
Your mobile soft unquiet strength; and envies hardness, the insolent quietness of stone.
“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”
"A Little Bones Trouble," The New York Times (1991-05-14)
“Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.”
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
Book XV, 165 (as translated by John Dryden); on the transmigration of souls.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims