“Burne was tough. Burne practiced archeology, the most inconvenient of the sciences.”
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 1 (p. 9)
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“And if we burn, you burn with us.”
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Variant: Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
Source: Mockingjay
“The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
Where they burn books, they also burn people.
Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
Variant: Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
“We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.”
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Source: We Were Liars
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
Where they burn books, they also burn people.
Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
Christy Brown (1932–1981) Irish artist
Source: Of Snails and Skylarks
