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The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation. That was the secret, he believed, to success in any endeavor: to be a careful, knowledgeable, and efficient observer of the world, and to act in accordance with what
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“No age lives entirely alone; every civilisation is formed not merely by its own achievements but by what it has inherited from the past. If these things are destroyed, we have lost a part of our past, and we shall be the poorer for it.”
― The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History
― The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History
“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”
― Emma
― Emma
“I feel at home in the entire world, wherever
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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