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I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference. Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.

Iron helmets will not save/ Even heroes from the grave/ Good man's blood will drain away/ While the wickid win the day.

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Onde se queimam livros, acaba-se queimando pessoas

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Ordinary he was insane, But he had lucid moments when he was merely Stupid.

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They loved each other, but neither Would venture to speak thereof; They glared at each other like enemies And wanted to die of love.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.