“Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.”
Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction
Interphase: Thought Universe (p. 247; closing lines)
Blood Music (1985)
“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)
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Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
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“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
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