“Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.”

— Greg Bear

Interphase: Thought Universe (p. 247; closing lines)
Blood Music (1985)

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Greg Bear 38

American writer best known for science fiction 1951

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Drinking Midnight Wine

“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.”

Will Durant book The Story of Civilization

Source: The Story of Civilization

“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

“They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.”

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat

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