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Each time someone dies, a library burns.

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Jandy Nelson
American - Writer
Born: June 24, 1965

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Jandy Nelson

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

Jandy Nelson

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Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

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Anais Nin

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

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