"If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive."

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Source : Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

Clive James

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