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  • [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

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  • History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

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    "Clio and the Doctors" by Jacques Barzun, ("History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction"), 1974.

  • If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

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    The House of Intellect ch. 6 (1959)
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Jacques Barzun

  • Born: November 30, 1907
  • Died: October 25, 2012
  • Occupation: Historian
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