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'Además, por su propia función social, el cartel político tuvo que aunar los grandes mitos iconográficos y los grandes mitos verbales.'

'"So I would not let our situation trouble you excessively. All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be. The alternative is to allow the thought of Galbatorix's possible actions to unsettle our minds, and that I won't do. I refuse to give him such power over me."'

'[In American newsreels of the 1930s], a lingering fear of Bolshevism appears to outweigh concerns about the growing fascist menace in Europe.'

'the ensuing narrative will continually emphasize the contagion of that hidden legacy which comes not from what one actually experienced, but from the sounds and images, often false ones, that one has absorbed and left unquestioned.'

'Saura describes [Sweet Hours] as "the story of a man who realizes that the present is bad, and the future is the same, and so he decides to return to the time when he was fifteen years old, the happiest time of his life." Ironically, those happy days just happen to be the darkest of recent Spanish history: the Civil War and the immediate post-war period.' Everyone misses their childhood above everything

'Saura focuses on what may well be the essence of that strikingly anachronistic impulse in Spanish culture: the urge to recuperate within the weave of a familiar past the uncertainty of an unchartered present.'

'A result of collaborations between governmental entities, local communities, archivists, and others, [the Museo del Ejército and the Alcázar of Toledo] create possibilities for dialogue and place the visitor in the position of retrospective witness to formerly unspoken events.'

'Torres has stated that he largely employed black-and-white photography for this project because "[t]hese pictures can be considered as war photography, taken almost seventy years after the fact." For him, the project, exhibitions, and accompanying book were a way to "win the last battle of that war, the war over memory"'

'Complicating full disclosure is the inaccessibility of some military, church, and private archives, the destruction of prisons, sites of concentration, and work camps, the deaths of witnesses and survivors, and the 1977 Amnesty Law, which freed political prisoners and allowed for the return of exiles but guaranteed impunity for those who worked for the regime.'

'In the interest of mounting a spectacular propaganda exhibition, the organizers of the [nationalist] San Sebastián exhibition disregarded conservation concerns.'

'We are calling this process, whereby the writer situates a story in a place by capturing it with words, "translation". It's a sideways manoeuvre. Part interpretation, part alchemy. Equally faithful and unfaithful to what is there and will be there.'

'Writing not only takes place, in the sense of being situated somewhere: it also captures place, and thus, in a way, comes to possess it.'

'A few minutes later the door was opened by a tall, thin man, seemingly escaped from an El Greco nightmare.'

'The rich wanted to become even richer. The powerful wanted more power. The mean wanted to feel like saints, and the pious wanted to be punished for sins they regretted not having had the courage to commit.'

'That's why a lot of people called her a sorceress, because she was able to see in them what they refused to see themselves.'

'The night, darker than ever, leaned in against the windowpanes.'

'Flags, gods and proclamations were the jokers in a pack that always dealt the same cards.'

'I watched her out of the corner of my eye and realised that just by looking at her it was easier to believe there might be something good and decent left in this lousy world and, with luck, in myself.'

'Isabella came over and sat next to me, on the windowsill. We enjoyed the play of silences and shadows over the rooftops of the old town.'

'"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"'

'"You are engaged in historic events, Eragon, and the roots of the difficulties you face lie in happenings from decades, centuries, and millennia ago. If I were you, I would study at every opportunity the lessons history has to teach us, for they may help you with the problems of today. In my own life, reading the record of the past has often provided me with the courage and the insight to choose the correct path."'

'The contest to claim Goya as a model for the progressive national artist in wartime demonstrates the inability to define the ideal formal strategy to appeal to the masses.'

'Is life always this complicated? she wondered. Or do I bring it upon myself?'

'"You will be a tool, then, wielded by others?" "I will serve the people as best I can."'

'He looked up at her. Letta, luminous, a little wild.'

'He was like the finest champagne: effervescent, complicated, emboldening, and gone too quickly from each encounter.'

'Violetta suddenly knew that this song was what she had to say: I am yours, World. You are mine.'

Already got a misspelled Italian word, twice in two paragraphs. C'mon now

on Pascal's Apology for the Christian Religion: 'Because the book was left in outline form, it seems sketchy, even aphoristic. But certain parts are like kernels, deceptively small for all they contain, waiting to burst open with the application of a little heat.'

'The other plays in this volume serve as a reminder that unlike Wordsworth's "lower class conversation," Shakespeare's language hasn't been made strange by the distance of time. It was always strange. Perhaps we once had a larger appetite for such strangeness.'