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And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City


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No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

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I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.



Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.



Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.



I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness



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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology



The dead have need of fairy tales too.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.



forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums





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