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“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the feeling of discovery. Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable itself - we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different. The rough-hewn door is still there, but it's much smaller; the day is cloudy instead of brilliant; it's spring instead of autumn; we're alone instead of with three friends. Or worse, with three friends instead of alone.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
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