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This new history of the Second World War is based on four main assumptions. First, that the conventional chronology of the war is no longer useful.
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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